Toward a transnational history of the social sciences
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- 1 March 2008
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences
- Vol. 44 (2), 146-160
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jhbs.20302
Abstract
Historical accounts of the social sciences have too often accepted local or national institu‐tions as a self‐evident framework of analysis, instead of considering them as being embed‐ded in transnational relations of various kinds. Evolving patterns of transnational mobility and exchange cut through the neat distinction between the local, the national, and the inter‐national, and thus represent an essential component in the dynamics of the social sciences, as well as a fruitful perspective for rethinking their historical development. In this pro‐grammatic outline, it is argued that a transnational history of the social sciences may be fruitfully understood on the basis of three general mechanisms, which have structured the transnational flows of people and ideas in decisive ways: (a) the functioning of international scholarly institutions, (b) the transnational mobility of scholars, and (c) the politics of trans‐national exchange of nonacademic institutions. The article subsequently examines and illustrates each of these mechanisms.Keywords
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