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"Meaning is everywhere and everybody must interpret. Nobody argued this more persuasively than Clifford Geertz. From Balinese cock fights to sheep raids to theater states, Geertz showed that there is no escape from the sticky webs of meaning that capture our lives. But what exactly is Geertz saying, and should we still listen to him? After all, many argue that his ideas have run out of steam. This book confronts Geertz and his critics, offering surprising answers from various disciplines and identifying for the first time the contours of "the Geertz Effect.""--

This collection of essays provides the first systematic and multidisciplinary analysis of the role of gender in the formation and dissemination of the American social sciences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Other books have traced the history of academic social science without paying attention to gender, or have described women's social activism while ignoring its relation to the production of new social knowledge. In contrast, this volume draws long overdue attention to the ways in which changing gender relations shaped the development and organization of the new social knowledge. And it challenges the privileged position that academic--and mostly male--social science has been granted in traditional histories by showing how women produced and popularized new forms of social knowledge in such places as settlement houses and the Russell Sage Foundation. The book's varied perspectives, building on recent work in history and feminist theory, break from the traditional view of the social sciences as objective bodies of expert knowledge. Contributors examine new forms of social knowledge, rather, as discourses about gender relations and as methods of cultural critique. The book will create a new framework for understanding the development of both social science and the history of gender relations in the United States. The contributors are: Guy Alchon, Nancy Berlage, Desley Deacon, Mary Dietz, James Farr, Nancy Folbre, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Dorothy Ross, Helene Silverberg, and Kamala Visweswaran

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Classical Yerstehen Position -- Chapter 2. The Positivists' Critique I: Not a Method of Verification -- Chapter 3. The Positivists' Critique II: Not a Necessary Condition for Understanding -- Chapter 4. Verstehen and Ordinary Language Philosophy -- Chapter 5. Verstehen and Situational Logic -- Chapter 6. Verstehen and Phenomenology -- Chapter 7. Verstehen and the Sciences of Man -- Chapter 8. Verstehen and Anthropology -- Chapter 9. Verstehen and Critical Theory -- Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Methodological Pluralism -- Index

Résumé Deux collègues sociologues brésiliens analysent la fondation du système d'enseignement et de recherche des sciences sociales dans leur pays. Bien que de fondation récente, son expansion est notoire. Ils nous présentent l'état des lieux ainsi que les thèmes étudiés selon la conjoncture politique et sociale. Ils analysent le passage de thèmes consacrés aux analyses macrosociales à des thèmes plus circonscrits aux nouvelles questions sociales, à la sociologie de l'entreprise ou aux études régionales, suite aux échecs rencontrés par les politiques publiques et aux espoirs déçus.

Part of the Conference on the State of the Social Sciences held at Boston U, 6-7 Dec 2002. Papers on "The Actual Preoccupations of the Social Sciences" are discussed. Scientism & politics are considered, as are the left-wing politicization of the social sciences & the related matter of intentionalist, functionalist, & Marxist theories of society. The culturalist theory of society is explicated, an approach that is comparatively complex yet generally neglected by manipulators of symbols. This approach also potentially contests the politicization of social science by problematizing theory itself, & accords with our own scholarly experiences. K. Coddon

Part of the Conference on the State of the Social Sciences held at Boston U, 6-7 Dec 2002. Papers on "The Actual Preoccupations of the Social Sciences" are discussed. Scientism & politics are considered, as are the left-wing politicization of the social sciences & the related matter of intentionalist, functionalist, & Marxist theories of society. The culturalist theory of society is explicated, an approach that is comparatively complex yet generally neglected by manipulators of symbols. This approach also potentially contests the politicization of social science by problematizing theory itself, & accords with our own scholarly experiences. K. Coddon

Science remains an eminently social institution, though the interactions between science & society are often poorly understood. This article addresses the context of recent efforts to identify environmental contributions to cancer. The authors first examine cancer incidence & discuss how incidence patterns may be related to air pollution & occupational & general toxic chemical & xenestrogen exposures. They then discuss the social context in which cancer research & treatment occurs, including the dominating role of the biomedical model & socioeconomic factors, including regulatory strategies that address single chemicals, corporate conflicts of interest, & the manipulation of public opinion. Last, they consider the broad context out of which cancer arises & discuss the merits of applying the precautionary principle to sustainable social policies. Progress in reducing cancer may be fruitfully made by returning our attention to broad-scale factors such as those affecting the quality of air, water, workplace, household environments, & the global climate. 92 References. [Copyright 2002 Sage Publications, Inc.]