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This essay surveys the contributions of William H. Sewell Jr.'sLogics of History and concludes that the book sketches a compelling agenda for an integrated historical social science. The author first summarizes Sewell's ontological and epistemological claims concerning social structure and event, history and temporality, and sociohistorical causality. The author then discusses five main areas in which ambiguities in Sewell's approach might be clarified or his arguments pushed farther. These concern (1) the relationship between historical event and traumatic event; (2) the idea of the unprecedented event or "antistructure"; (3) the theory of semiosis underlying Sewell's notion of a multiplicity of structures; and (4) the compatibilities and differences between the concepts of structure and mechanism (here the author argues that social structures are the distinctive "mechanisms" of the human or social sciences). Finally, (5) Sewell's call for "a more robust sense of the social" in historical writing locates the "social" mainly at the level of the metafield of power, or what regulation theory calls the mode of regulation; the author suggests a possible integration of this society-level concept with Pierre Bourdieu's theory of semiautonomous fields.

To begin on a low-key, disarming note, I emphasize that this paper's title has two clauses. The second is more important than the first. The first clause reads, "Changing Social Science to Change the World." The second reads, "A Discussion Paper." The second clause is more important than the first because it indicates the paper's primary function. It is primarily designed to serve as a springboard for general and more elevated discussion of a set of topics that I hope interests all or most members of the Social Science History Association, despite their professional membership in different academic disciplines and their engagement in widely diverse fields of research specialization.

Préface, par Émile Boutrox.--Morale positive. Art et science. Vues d'ensemble, par E. Delbet.--Classification des idées morales du temps présent, par A. Darlu.--L'unité morale, par Marcel Bernès.--De l'orientation morale du temps présent, par le pasteur Wagner.--La justice et le droit, par le R.P. Vincent Maumus.--Charité et sélection, par G. Belot.--L'éthique du socialisme, par G. Sorel.--La morale de Tolstoï, par Maxime Kovalevsky.--Justice et charité, par Charles Gide.--L'ordre des joies, par Léon Brunschvicg.--Le devoir présent de la jeunesse, par F. Buisson.--Morale et politique, par E. de Roberty.--La morale individuelle et la morale sociale, par P. Malapert.--La morale des Grecs et la crise morale contemporaine, par Lionel Dauriac. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Along with growth and acceptance of the anthropology of science and technology has come a narrowing of focus both topically and methodologically. An alternative topic of inquiry (social movements) and an alternative method (a limited return to nomothetic inquiry) offer potential for research that is relevant to both social change actors and social scientists such as sociologists and political scientists. A comparative analysis of existing anthropological research on science, technology, and social movements provides the basis for limited generalizations regarding the types and circumstances of charged cultural repertoires that both social movements and elites invoke.

Michel Marié
War, Colonies, Cities and the Social Sciences
The history of urban research in the social sciences cannot be reduced to the opposition between technocratic thought from the 1960s and «radical» sociology. Two «side-approaches» to this research are proposed. First of all, during the colonial period, methods of town-planning were worked out, political thought was developed about urban life, and relations between managers and researchers were established. Secondly, through the X-Crise movement, social Catholicism and the Resistance, a doctrine of government interventionism emerged. This examination of the vision of top civil servants shows the importance of research and consultancy as of the 1950s.

"In the coming years, complex domestic and international environments and challenges to national security will continue. Intelligence analysts and the intelligence community will need access to the appropriate tools and developing knowledge about threats to national security in order to provide the best information to policy makers. Research and knowledge from the social and behavioral sciences (SBS) can help inform the work of intelligence analysis; however, in the past, bringing important findings from research to bear on the day-to-day work of intelligence analysis has been difficult. In order to understand how knowledge from science can be directed and applied to help the intelligence community fulfill its critical responsibilities, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will undertake a 2-year survey of the social and behavioral sciences. To launch this discussion, a summit designed to highlight cutting-edge research and identify future directions for research in a few areas of the social and behavioral sciences was held in October 2016. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the summit"--Publisher's description

In Understanding Humans: How Social Science Can Help Solve Our Problems, David Edmonds curates a selection of interviews with social science researchers covering the breadth of human life and society, from morality, bias and identity to kinship, inequality and justice. Accessible and engaging, the research discussed in the book illuminates the crucial role of social sciences in addressing contemporary … Continued

A deep sense of ambivalence towards the Western social scientific categories has been a characteristic feature of the growth and development of social sciences in postcolonial societies. Indian sociologists, in particular, have frequently turned their critical gaze on the ethnocentrism of the Western social sciences. In fact, there have been extreme responses on the issue—from the impossibility of an Indian sociology to the calls for an Indian ethno-sociology. At the core of such responses is the contestation over one's approach and orientation to Western modernity. Against this backdrop, the present paper selectively invokes Radhakamal Mukerjee's axial concerns and analytical thematics with a view to demonstrate the general contour of a long-raging debate on the indigeneity question in Indian sociology.