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This issue of the Journal of Social Science Education deals with the financial and economic crises, its causes and the consequences which could be drawn for civic and economic education. As far as economic and civic educators are expected to behave like communicators of established scientific knowledge received from economics or political science, they also are hit by the crisis of these two disciplines which is induced by their severe shortcomings in the crisis. The conventional wisdom of economics or of political science failed to provide an early warning system of potentially dangerous institutions, policies or outcomes. On the contrary, among the main causes of the financial crisis and its political and economic failures are: policy recommendations delivered by the Chicago school of economics, beliefs and decisions of the economic and political elites encouraged by mainstream economics and economic liberalism, and, last but not least, an increasing self-restraint of the state towards the market, fed by political theories based on the idea that (financial) markets should best control themselves. The financial-economic-political crisis cannot be understood without its ideological, institutional and political framework, and this framework cannot be understood without taking into account its foundations in mainstream economics and the economic mode of thinking which is also flourishing in political science. The significant shift of power in favour of the international financial industries has to be considered, too. Disentangling the intricate causes of the intertwined crises and discussing its consequences – also for education at universities – is a challenging task taken up by the authors of this and the next issue of the JSSE.

The Pioneers of Social Research, 1996–2018 is a rich qualitative collection of life story interviews with over fifty pioneering academics, who are regarded as having played a significant role in developing the practices of social research across key disciplines. The project was directed by Paul Thompson, himself a pioneer of oral history in Europe. The interviewees are essentially British pioneers, all but six born within what was then the British Empire, but they worked worldwide in Europe, Africa, Australasia, the Caribbean, Latin America and the United States. The collection includes full interview transcripts and detailed summaries, YouTube playlists, thematic highlights and associated teaching resources, all openly accessible through the UK Data Service. The following data paper provides an overview of Thompson's data collection approach, the archiving and publishing of the data materials, and a discussion of the resources available. It also highlights opportunities of this unique research data for future use.

Un soulèvement peut-il être prévu ? Les bouleversements les plus profonds de nos sociétés obéissent-ils, comme certains l'affirment, à des lois aussi nécessaires que celles de la nature ? Dans un contexte d'émergence et de première formalisation des sciences sociales, le penseur anarchiste Gustav Landauer a mis en garde au début du XX e siècle contre toute tentative de saisir les réalités humaines, mouvantes et dynamiques, à partir d'une grille de lecture trop statique. Partisan d'une vision plus artistique que scientifique du changement social, il répond à la question : peut-on faire une science de la révolution ?

Patricia A. Banks on the uneven unfolding of racial and gender diversity in elite art markets.

This article tries to articulate certain drifts in 'social psychology of science' with different contributions from 'feminist studies of science.' This is done in a reflexive aim in order to analyze how gender structures intersect the practices of psychological knowledge production. In this process sexual subjects and objects of psychological knowledge are constructed. It is also stressed, the relevance given in feminist epistemologies to the analysis of subjectivities conformation in the production of science. As well as, to the role of diverse subject-knowledge-positions and its necessary democratic inclusion for a more objective and social fair science-psychology.

Der Autor diskutiert vier Fragen, indem er sie zunächst kurz beantwortet und nachfolgend ausführlich begründet. 1. Welche Rolle spielte die wissenschaftliche Elite der DDR im Transformationsprozess? 2. Wie wurde sie nach dem Regimewechsel behandelt, "abgewickelt" oder integriert? 3. Welche Rolle spielt die wissenschaftliche Elite der DDR heute? 4. Entwickelte sich eine neue Wissenschaftselite im Transformationsprozess? (HoF/Text übernommen).