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Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences: a research agenda.
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Beck, Ulrich Von Sznaider, Natan |
| Copyright Year | 2006 |
| Abstract | This article calls for a re-conceptualization of the social sciences by asking for a cosmopolitan turn. The intellectual undertaking of redefining cosmopolitanism is a trans-disciplinary one, which includes geography, anthropology, ethnology, international relations, international law, political philosophy and political theory, and now sociology and social theory. Methodological nationalism, which subsumes society under the nation-state, has until now made this task almost impossible. The alternative, a 'cosmopolitan outlook', is a contested term and project. Cosmopolitanism must not be equalized with the global (or globalization), with 'world system theory' (Wallerstein), with 'world polity' (Meyer and others), or with 'world-society' (Luhmann). All of those concepts presuppose basic dualisms, such as domestic/foreign or national/international, which in reality have become ambiguous. Methodological cosmopolitanism opens up new horizons by demonstrating how we can make the empirical investigation of border crossings and other transnational phenomena possible. |
| Starting Page | 1 |
| Ending Page | 23 |
| Page Count | 23 |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01250.x |
| PubMed reference number | 16506994 |
| Journal | Medline |
| Volume Number | 57 |
| Issue Number | 1 |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www2.mta.ac.il/~natan/unpacking%20cosmoplitanism%20for%20the%20social%20sciences.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://detc.ls.urfu.ru/courses/cphilos0021/text/hrest_03_03_02.pdf |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2009.01250.x |
| Journal | The British journal of sociology |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
