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Scott Frickel - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Science and neoliberal globalization: A Political sociological approach
Theory and Society, 2011Co-Authors: Kelly Moore, Daniel Lee Kleinman, David Hess, Scott FrickelAbstract:The Political ideology of neoliberalism is widely recognized as having influenced the organization of national and global economies and public policies since the 1970s. In this article, we examine the relationship between the neoliberal variant of globalization and science. To do so, we develop a framework for Sociology of science that emphasizes closer ties among Political Sociology, the Sociology of social movements, and economic and organizational Sociology and that draws attention to patterns of increasing and uneven industrial influence amid several countervailing processes. Specifically, we explore three fundamental changes since the 1970s: the advent of the knowledge economy and the increasing interchange between academic and industrial research and development signified by academic capitalism and asymmetric convergence; the increasing prominence of science-based regulation of technology in global trade liberalization, marked by the heightened role of international organizations and the convergence of scientism and neoliberalism; and the epistemic modernization of the relationship between scientists and publics, represented by the proliferation of new institutions of deliberation, participation, activism, enterprise, and social movement mobilizatio
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Undone science: Charting social movement and civil society challenges to research agenda setting
Science Technology and Human Values, 2010Co-Authors: Scott Frickel, Jeff Howard, Joanna Kempner, Gwen Ottinger, Samuel Gibbon, David J HessAbstract:"Undone science" refers to areas of research that are left unfunded, incomplete, or generally ignored but that social movements or civil society organizations often identify as worthy of more research. This study mobilizes four recent studies to further elaborate the concept of undone science as it relates to the Political construction of research agendas. Using these cases, we develop the argument that undone science is part of a broader politics of knowledge, wherein multiple and competing groups struggle over the construction and implementation of alternative research agendas. Overall, the study demonstrates the analytic potential of the concept of undone science to deepen understanding of the systematic nonproduction of knowledge in the institutional matrix of state, industry, and social movements that is characteristic of recent calls for a ‘‘new Political Sociology of science.’’
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the new Political Sociology of science institutions networks and power
2006Co-Authors: Scott Frickel, Kelly MooreAbstract:In the twenty-first century, the production and use of scientific knowledge is more regulated, commercialized, and participatory than at any other time. The stakes in understanding these changes are high for scientist and nonscientist alike: they challenge traditional ideas of intellectual work and property and have the potential to remake legal and professional boundaries and transform the practice of research. A critical examination of the structures of power and inequality these changes hinge upon, this book explores the implications for human health, democratic society, and the environment.
Matt Dawson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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autonomous functions of all countries unite you have nothing to lose but your economic anomie emile durkheim s libertarian socialist critique
Critical Sociology, 2013Co-Authors: Matt DawsonAbstract:Scholars analysing Durkheim’s relation to socialism have generally focused on whether Durkheim was personally a socialist and/or his discussion of socialism as a ‘social fact’. This article focuses on whether Durkheim had a socialist theory. I will highlight how Durkheim’s normative and socialist Political Sociology aimed its critique at: the dominance of the market economy; economic polarization; class conflict; the ‘capitalist state’; and the impossibility of universal individual realization without radical economic change. From here Durkheim’s framework for an alternative Political society will be outlined. This alternative, with its advocacy of Political organization in ‘corporations’, can be located within a tradition of ‘libertarian’ socialism found most prominently in the work of the early 20th-century English social theorist, G.D.H. Cole. It will be argued Durkheim offers a powerful explanation for the continued dominance of neoliberal ideas ‘after the crash’ and the resulting ‘Occupy’ protests.
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against the big society a durkheimian socialist critique
Critical Social Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Matt DawsonAbstract:This paper is an attempt to take a critical sociological look at the UK government’s flagship ‘Big Society’ policy. To do this I utilize the Political Sociology of Emile Durkheim, specifically what I call his ‘socialist theory’. This overlooked aspect of Durkheim’s Sociology contains a strong normative critique and alternative project concerning the role of the State, private property, economic regulation and inequality. By applying this to the Big Society it is argued that the latter will result in: increased moral fragmentation, the furthering of economic inequality and the development of a ‘postcode lottery’. Instead, Durkheim’s advocacy of functional representation in the form of the ‘corporations’ seems to hold some contemporary relevance.
Sophie Jacquot - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Using Europe: Strategic action in multi-level politics
Comparative European Politics, 2010Co-Authors: Cornelia Woll, Sophie JacquotAbstract:This article examines the importance of action-theoretical considera- tions in European studies. By outlining the notion of 'usage' of the European Union, we argue for a more systematically sociological consideration of strategic action in the study of European transformations. The recent turns towards constructivism and comparative Political Sociology allow analyzing the rationality of Political actors without falling in the trap of overly reductionist rational choice assumptions. Concentrating on intentional action helps to reveal the importance of three aspects of the multi-level polity: (1) informal and non-constraining procedures; (2) the effects of ways in which actors move in between the different levels of the European Political system; and (3) the ambiguous and often surprising coalitions that come together despite often considerable disagreement over their final goals. Comparative European Politics (2010) 8, 110-126. doi:10.1057/cep.2010.7
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Using Europe: Strategic action in multi-level politics
Comparative European Politics, 2010Co-Authors: Cornelia Woll, Sophie JacquotAbstract:This article examines the importance of action-theoretical considerations in European studies. By outlining the notion of ‘usage’ of the European Union, we argue for a more systematically sociological consideration of strategic action in the study of European transformations. The recent turns towards constructivism and comparative Political Sociology allow analyzing the rationality of Political actors without falling in the trap of overly reductionist rational choice assumptions. Concentrating on intentional action helps to reveal the importance of three aspects of the multi-level polity: (1) informal and non-constraining procedures; (2) the effects of ways in which actors move in between the different levels of the European Political system; and (3) the ambiguous and often surprising coalitions that come together despite often considerable disagreement over their final goals.
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usage of european integration europeanisation from a sociological perspective
Sciences Po publications, 2004Co-Authors: Sophie Jacquot, Cornelia WollAbstract:The effect of European integration on its member states constitutes the new research agenda within the study of European integration. Marked by the "the institutionalist turn" of Anglo-Saxon Political sciences, the most dominant theories on europeanisation focus on structural arrangements. Institutional incompatibility between the European and the national level, so the hypothesis, creates pressures for change. Actors are often only considered as mediators of these pressures. Consequentially, few approaches try to explain adaptational change initiated by policy actors in the absence of institutional pressures. Using a Political Sociology approach, the central concern of this paper is to insist on the Political discretion of national actors in translation of European requirements. We believe that understanding not only "adaptation to" but also "usage of" the process of European integration is important to understanding the transformation of European member states. By insisting on usage, we aim at analysing both the strategic interaction of rational actors with the European institutions and the more sociological effect of "usage" - as "daily practice" - on the interest and identities of the actors.
J R Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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situating speech a rhetorical approach to Political strategy
Political Studies, 2015Co-Authors: J R MartinAbstract:Ideas are increasingly acknowledged as factors in explaining Political behaviour. But often they are treated as inert resources rather than dynamic instances of action in themselves. The latter, I propose, requires reflection on the character of speech – as the medium of ideas – in responding to and refiguring a prevailing situation. I undertake such reflection by setting out a rhetorical approach to Political strategy. Building upon ‘interpretive’ advances in Political science I shift the focus from stable cognitive frames to the dynamics of argumentation where ideas work expressively. I then explore the rhetorical aspect of strategising with attention to the way speech serves to orient audiences by creatively re-appropriating a situation. That approach is shown to be consistent with a ‘dialectical’ Political Sociology that emphasises the interaction of structure and agency. Finally, I sketch a method for undertaking rhetorical analysis and indicate how it might be applied to a concrete example.
James Martin - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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situating speech a rhetorical approach to Political strategy
Political Studies, 2015Co-Authors: James MartinAbstract:type="main"> Ideas are increasingly acknowledged as factors in explaining Political behaviour. But often they are treated as inert resources rather than dynamic instances of action in themselves. The latter, I propose, requires reflection on the character of speech – as the medium of ideas – in responding to and refiguring a prevailing situation. I undertake such reflection by setting out a rhetorical approach to Political strategy. Building upon ‘interpretive’ advances in Political science I shift the focus from stable cognitive frames to the dynamics of argumentation where ideas work expressively. I then explore the rhetorical aspect of strategising with attention to the way speech serves to orient audiences by creatively re-appropriating a situation. That approach is shown to be consistent with a ‘dialectical’ Political Sociology that emphasises the interaction of structure and agency. Finally, I sketch a method for undertaking rhetorical analysis and indicate how it might be applied to a concrete example.