Full Description
This book examines the increasing internationalization of the social sciences, focusing specifically on how Europeanization has reshaped the production of social science knowledge. Over recent decades, research has highlighted how ideas, people, and techniques have circulated between nation-states and how international organizations have facilitated these flows. Following a similar trajectory to nation-states, the EU has driven shifts in knowledge production to address its unique challenges, including economic and social integration, cultural coordination, homogenization, standardization, and institutional construction. The book explores these dynamics through 10 chapters that analyze the processes and consequences of Europeanization. Drawing on diverse methods and analytical approaches, the chapters are structured around three key dimensions: hierarchies, practices, and institutions. Together, they provide a comprehensive account of how European institutions, networks, and ideas have transformed the social sciences.
Contents
1) Introduction: Europeanized Social Science - changes in hierarchies, practices, and institutions.- 2) Championing the Social Sciences or Creating Champions? Funding Agencies between Agenda Setting and Scientific Autonomy.- 3) Traveling European "excellence": scientific mobility, symbolic reputation, and its impact on knowledge production.- 4) Dedicated to excellence: research assessment and isomorphic difference in a European context.- 5) Europeanization in publication practices in EU funded social science research.- 6) What Constitutes Legitimate European Knowledge? Insights from an Elite School Preparing for EU Careers.- 7) Political work and the epistemological position of the social sciences in H2020.- 8) EU Research as Unequal Europeanisation? Exploring the less visible navigational work accompanying EU-funded Social Science Collaboration.- 9) Answering the Call of the European Union: The Case of Swedish Erasmus+ Students in the Social Sciences.- 10) Emerging practices of European social science.
