The Benefit of Broad Horizons - Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science

More than perhaps anybody else in the world, the Swedish social scientist Björn Wittrock has contributed - both on the intellectual and institutional level - to making a truly global science possible. This book is devoted to an appreciation of his contributions.

About the author

Hans Joas, Ph.D. (1979) in Sociology, Free University of Berlin. Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago.

Barbro Klein, Ph.D. (1970) in Folklore Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Professor Emerita of Ethnology, Stockholm University. Director Emerita and now Permanent Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala.

Product details

• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.10.2010
• EAN: 9789004192843
• ISBN: 978-90-04-19284-3
• No. of pages: 460
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 246 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 930 g
• Series: International Comparative Soci
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education