Social science and the state in continental Western Europe: the political structuration of disciplinary discourse

In: International social science journal: ISSJ, Band 122, Heft v 89

Abstract

Shows that the determinants of discourse developments have changed considerably from the period of disciplinary formation to the present stage. In the 'statist societies of continental Europe those discourses of social science which found their institutional legitimacy under a system of state academic institutions have always concentrated on the state. (AFH)