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Charles Camic
University of Chicago Press

Social Knowledge in the Making

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AuthorCharles Camic
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
PublishedJan 20 2012
Book FormatPaperback
ISBN-139780226092096
Dimensions8.8 X 6 X 1.2 inches
Weight 1.45 pounds
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CategoriesSocial Science > Sociology - General
LanguageEnglish

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Over the past quarter century, researchers have successfully explored the inner workings of the physical and biological sciences using a variety of social and historical lenses. Inspired by these advances, the contributors to Social Knowledge in the Making turn their attention to the social sciences, broadly construed. The result is the first comprehensive effort to study and understand the day-to-day activities involved in the creation of social-scientific and related forms of knowledge about the social world. The essays collected here tackle a range of previously unexplored questions about the practices involved in the production, assessment, and use of diverse forms of social knowledge. A stellar cast of multidisciplinary scholars addresses topics such as the changing practices of historical research, anthropological data collection, library usage, peer review, and institutional review boards. Turning to the world beyond the academy, other essays focus on global banks, survey research organizations, and national security and economic policy makers. Social Knowledge in the Making is a landmark volume for a new field of inquiry, and the bold new research agenda it proposes will be welcomed in the social science, the humanities, and a broad range of nonacademic settings.

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Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Chicago, 1979. Areas of interest include: classical and contemporary sociological theory; sociology of ideas/knowledge; sociology of science; history of sociology and social thought; historical sociology.

Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Camic was Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In recent years, his work has centered on examining the social processes by which the social sciences took shape and developed in the United States in the period from 1880 to 1940.

He is currently writing a book on the social origins of Thorstein Veblen's heterodox economics. He recently edited Social Knowledge in the Making (with Michele Lamont and Neil Gross) and Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen (with Geoffrey M. Hodgson)

Source: Northwestern University Department of Sociology

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