Social Sciences and Politics: An introduction The introduction presents and introduces the special issue of the journal that addresses the relationship between social sciences and political cultures. It adopts a historical perspective to examine and evaluate how social sciences actually contributed to the understanding of politics and the different representations of society; it also discusses various descriptions of the social and political process offered by social sciences. Nowadays, with democracies facing a crisis of representation and the prospect of increasing prosperity for all questioned and challenged, it is important to reconstruct and discuss the historical connection between these two dimensions – politics and social sciences – in order to understand how and to what extent social sciences have influenced politics, and for the implications for both politics and social sciences.
Scienze sociali e politica: nota introduttiva / S. Cavazza. - STAMPA. - (2013), pp. 279-282. [10.1412/75202]
Scienze sociali e politica: nota introduttiva
CAVAZZA, STEFANO
2013
Abstract
Social Sciences and Politics: An introduction The introduction presents and introduces the special issue of the journal that addresses the relationship between social sciences and political cultures. It adopts a historical perspective to examine and evaluate how social sciences actually contributed to the understanding of politics and the different representations of society; it also discusses various descriptions of the social and political process offered by social sciences. Nowadays, with democracies facing a crisis of representation and the prospect of increasing prosperity for all questioned and challenged, it is important to reconstruct and discuss the historical connection between these two dimensions – politics and social sciences – in order to understand how and to what extent social sciences have influenced politics, and for the implications for both politics and social sciences.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.