Wow! eBook
The Benefit of Broad Horizons: Intellectual and Institutional Preconditions for a Global Social Science: 24
Author(s): Hans Joas (Author), Barbro Klein (Author)
- Publisher: BRILL
- Publication Date: 25 Oct. 2010
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 460 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004192840
- ISBN-13: 9789004192843
Book Description
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.
Editorial Reviews
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.
