André Schiffrin

Johan Heilbron

Gustavo Sorá

Martin Doré

Gisèle Sapiro

Elżbieta Skibińska

Ioana Popa

Jean Yves Mollier

Hélène Buzelin

Luc Pinhas

Sophie Nöel

Camille Joseph

Fanny Mazzone

Hervé Serry

Jean-Marc Gouanvic

Marta Pragana Dantas

Las recientes transformaciones que han afectado la cadena de producción del libro se han analizado, en general, desde el punto de vista del proceso de racionalización y de concentración, como causantes de la aceleración del círculo de fusiones-adquisiciones de estos últimos años. Curiosamente, se ha prestado menos atención a las modificaciones sufridas por la configuración de las relaciones espaciales y de la estructura del espacio de la producción editorial. Ahora bien, el comercio del libro es, ante todo, un asunto de territorios, y estos determinan las formas de circulación: zonas lingüísticas, áreas geográficas de distribución, fronteras nacionales que circunscriben espacios jurídicos y políticas públicas, territorios imaginarios que asocian identidades con lugares y crean un horizonte de expectativa.

Las contradicciones de la globalización editorial

Thibaud Boncourt

This volume employs new empirical data to examine the internationalization of the social sciences and humanities (SSH). While the globalization dynamics that have transformed the shape of the world over the last decades has been the subject of a growing number of scientific studies, very few such studies have set out to analyze the globalization of social and human sciences themselves. Arguing against the complacent assumption that Science is ‘international by nature’, this work demonstrates that the growing circulation of scholars and scientific ideas is a complex, contradictory and contested process. Arranged thematically, the chapters in this volume present a coherent exploration of patterns of transnationalization, South-North and East-West exchanges, and transnational regionalization. Further, they offer fresh insight into specific topics including the influence of the Anglo-American research infrastructure and the development of social and human sciences in postcolonial contexts. Featuring contributions from leading international scholars in the field, this work will advance the research agenda and will have interdisciplinary appeal for scholars from across the social sciences.

The Social and Human Sciences in Global Power Relations

French Sociology offers a uniquely comprehensive view of the oldest and still one of the most vibrant national traditions in sociology. Johan Heilbron covers the development of sociology in France from its beginnings in the early nineteenth century through the discipline’s expansion in the late twentieth century, tracing the careers of figures from Auguste Comte to Pierre Bourdieu. Presenting fresh interpretations of how renowned thinkers such as Émile Durkheim and his collaborators defined the contours and content of the discipline and contributed to intellectual renewals in a wide range of other human sciences, Heilbron’s sophisticated book is both an innovative sociological study and a major reference work in the history of the social sciences. Heilbron recounts the halting process by which sociology evolved from a new and improbable science into a legitimate academic discipline. Having entered the academic field at the end of the nineteenth century, sociology developed along two separate tracks: one in the Faculty of Letters, engendering an enduring dependence on philosophy and the humanities, the other in research institutes outside of the university, in which sociology evolved within and across more specialized research areas. Distinguishing different dynamics and various cycles of change, Heilbron portrays the ways in which individuals and groups maneuvered within this changing structure, seizing opportunities as they arose. French Sociology vividly depicts the promises and pitfalls of a discipline that up to this day remains one of the most interdisciplinary endeavors among the human sciences in France.

French Sociology

Mike Savage

Olav Korsnes

Johs. Hjellbrekke

Felix Bühlmann

Since the financial crisis, the issue of the ‘one percent’ has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic research. New Directions in Elite Studies attempts to move the social scientific study of elites beyond economic analysis, which has greatly improved our knowledge of inequality, but is restricted to income and wealth. In contrast, this book mobilizes a broad scope of research methods to uncover the social composition of the power elite – the ‘field of power’. It reconstructs processes through which people gain access to positions in this particular social space, examines the various forms of capital they mobilize in the process – economic, but also cultural and social capital – and probes changes over time and variations across national contexts. Bringing together the most advanced research into elites by a European and multidisciplinary group of scholars, this book presents an agenda for the future study of elites. It will appeal to all those interested in the study of elites, inequality, class, power, and gender inequality.

New Directions in Elite Studies

Norbert Elias

Heike Hammer

Band 3.1: Über den Prozeß der Zivilisation. Soziogenetische und psychogenetische Untersuchungen

Gesammelte Schriften in 19 Bänden

Johs Hjellbrekke

Felix Buhlmann

Since the financial crisis, the issue of the 'one percent' has become the centre of intense public debate, unavoidable even for members of the elite themselves. Moreover, inquiring into elites has taken centre-stage once again in both journalistic investigations and academic research. New Directions in Elite Studies attempts to move the social scientific study of elites beyond economic analysis, which has greatly improved our knowledge of inequality, but is restricted to income and wealth. In contrast, this book mobilizes a broad scope of research methods to uncover the social composition of the power elite - the 'field of power'. It reconstructs processes through which people gain access to positions in this particular social space, examines the various forms of capital they mobilize in the process - economic, but also cultural and social capital - and probes changes over time and variations across national contexts. Bringing together the most advanced research into elites by a European and multidisciplinary group of scholars, this book presents an agenda for the future study of elites. It will appeal to all those interested in the study of elites, inequality, class, power, and gender inequality.

Johan Heilbron

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