National, Transnational and International Histories of Sociology and Social Thought

Session Submission Type: Invited Session (90 minute)

Description

This session features papers about the circulation of sociological and social theoretical concepts and ideas across national and disciplinary boundaries; about the differences and relations between national and international optics on the history of sociology and social theory; about international processes and agencies involved in the shaping of sociology and social science through professionalization, institutionalization, and other means; and about the role of nationalism, colonialism, empire, international political movements, and globalization in shaping sociology and social thought.

Sub Unit

• History of Sociology and Social Thought Section / National, Transnational and International Histories of Sociology and Social Thought

Presider

• Laura R. Ford, Faulkner University

Individual Presentations

• Humanist Settlers: The University as a Territorial Project - Adi Livne, Visiting Assistant Prof., Jewish Studies, Middlebury College

• Social Scientists Learning from History: How Their Ideas Changed the Multilateral Governance of (De-)colonization from the Mandate Commission to the Trusteeship Council - Gregoire Mallard, The Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies

• Inventing the Credential Society in Cold-War America - Mitchell L. Stevens, Stanford University

• The Transnational Circulation in and of Weimar’s Sociology - Stephan Moebius, Professor of Sociology, University of Graz (Austria)

Session Organizer

• George Steinmetz