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31 | 2017
Faire science

Being scientific
Edited by Yann Renisio and Camila Orozco Espinel
Couverture RHSH 31|2017
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16 x 24 cm - 266 pages
ISBN 979-10-351-0024-7

Historians of academic disciplines do not have an easy time of it: in their quest for recognition and for funding, or their desire for refoundation, they often have to redefine what legitimates their activities and the (re)production of their research body. This constant work of redefinition, in a specific place and time, consolidates or displaces the manifest stakes of scientificity – the latter remaining capital. In order to interpret such operations, the properties of the agents, the institutional morphology of the practices, and their materiality, are essential keys to understanding. The contributions to this dossier embrace different fields of the humanities and social sciences (economics, sociology, prehistory, literary criticism) over a period ranging from the 1920s to the 1970s, mainly in France and the United States. The articles underline the significance of political and strategic issues, and the importance of relations with other sciences, for an undertanding of how the humanities and social sciences assert their scientificity.

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