Experimentalism and Sociology: From Crisis to Experience

Author:   Tanja Bogusz
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
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9783030924775


Pages:   352
Publication Date:   24 May 2022
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This book is based on the understanding that the diversity and heterogeneity of science and society are not only issue of critique, but engender experimental forms of collaboration. Building on John Dewey’s experimental theory of knowledge and inquiry, practice theory, science and technology studies and the anthropology of nature, the book offers a trenchant redefinition of a present-focused sociology as a science of experience in the spirit of experimentalism. Crisis, instead of being a mere problem, is understood as the baseline for creativity and innovation. Committed to the experimental pursuit, the book provides an experience-based methodological approach for an inter- and trans disciplinary sociology. Finally, it argues for a globalized and transformative sociological outreach beyond established epistemic and national borders. This book is of interest to sociologists and other social scientists pursuing experimentalism in theory, method and/or practice.

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Author:   Tanja Bogusz
Publisher:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint:   Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.717kg
ISBN:  

9783030924775


ISBN 10:   3030924777
Pages:   352
Publication Date:   24 May 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Language:   English

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"Chapter 1: Introduction: Experimentalism – an Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking. Chapter 2: Categorial Foundations for a Social Theory of Experimentalism: John Dewey as Sociologist.2.1 Experiencing, testing, cooperate – On the Relevance of the experimental Perspective for Sociology.2.2. Flashback: History and Scope of the US-American Pragmatist Movement. 2.3 Deweys logical Experimentalism as Sociology.       2.3.1 ""Experience"": Dewey‘s procedural Theory of Knowledge.      2.3.2 ""Test"": Dewey‘s constructivist Social Theory.      2.3.3 ""Cooperation"": Dewey‘s Theory of Society.2. 4. What means Experimentalism? Summary and first Hypothesises. Chapter 3: Test Run I: What means Experience? Experimentalist Sociologies as Theories of Knowledge.3.1 Why Rorty was Wrong.3.2 Socio-political Experiential Differences as Originator for Experimental Action:the City, the Land, the Laboratory.3.3 The Modi operandi of Experience: Situating, co-relating, materializing.      3.3.1 ""Situate"": The transformative Moment of Experiential Differences – Chicago School.      3.3.2 ""Co-relate"": The Practice-Theoretical Thesis of Continuity – Bourdieu in Algeria.      3.3.3 ""Materialize"": Experimental Translation of Researcher’s Experience – Knorr- Cetina in                                     the Laboratory.3.4 Interim Conclusion: The Experimental Theory of Knowledge. Chapter 4: Test Run II: What means Test? Social-Theoretical Effects of Experimentalism.4.1 Heisenberg and the Random Universe.4.2 The Test-Situation as Incentive for Experimental Knowledge Production.4.3 The Modi operandi of the Test: Preparing, testing, modelling.      4.3.1 ""Preparing"": Luhmann’s Sociological Knowledge Theory.      4.3.2 ""Testing"": The Experiment as an Event – Actor-Network-Theory as methodological Pragmatism.      4.3.3 ""Modelling"": Ratification of epistemic Relevancies – The Pragmatic Sociology of Critique.4.4 Interim Conclusion: The Experimental Social Theory. Chapter 5: Test Run III: What means Cooperation? Experimentalism as a Contribution for a Critical Social Ecology.5.1 Epistemic Cloudbursts and Nice-Weather-Theories.5.2. Cooperations as a Response to Experiential Differences: Entangled Modernity, the Environment, the Public.5.3 The Modi operandi of Cooperation: Criticising, participating, collaborating.      5.3.1 ""Criticising"": On the Productivity of the Nature-Culture-Divide – Descola’s Cosmo-Political Anthropology          of Nature      5.3.2 ""Participating"": Experimental Sociologies of Critical Publics – STS and ANT.      5.3.3 ""Collaborating"": Bringing Dewey to a Marine-Biological Expedition – Doing Biodiversity.5.4 Interim Conclusion: The Experimentalist Theory of Society. Chapter 6: Conclusion – from the Science of Crisis to the Science of Experience. 6.1 Experience versus Crisis.6.2 Test versus Settlement.6.3 Cooperation versus Solidarity.6.4 Outlook."

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Tanja Bogusz, PhD habil. is a sociologist and social anthropologist at the Center for Sustainable Society Research (CSS) at Hamburg University, Germany. She has published broadly on French sociology and anthropology (classic and contemporary), pragmatism and practice theories, social sciences of nature and sociological experimentalism. She was appointed as a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, the Collège de France Paris, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Kassel University, Germany, and as a research fellow at the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University. She has earned grants for research projects at the crossroads of social theory, human-environmental relations, biodiversity research, and social cohesion (DFG, BMBF, FMSH, DAAD). In 2011–2013 she did an ethnographic inquiry on marine taxonomy at the Natural History Museum in Paris that led to a study of a large international biodiversity expedition in Papua New Guinea. Stemming from her implementation within the expedition, a newly discovered marine species (Joculator boguszae) was named after her.

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