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The Unanticipated Consequences of Doing Consequential Sociology - Michael D. Kennedy, Globalizing Knowledge. Intellectuals, Universities and Publics in Transformation (Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2015)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 December 2015

Federico Brandmayr
Federico Brandmayr*
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Paris-Sorbonne [[email protected]]
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 56 , Issue 3 , December 2015 , pp. 498 - 508
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References

1 Jeffrey C. Alexander, “‘Globalization’ as Collective Representation: The New Dream of a Cosmopolitan Civil Sphere”, International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Vol. 19, No. 1/2, 2005: 82.

2 See Charles Camic and Neil Gross, “The New Sociology of Ideas”, in The Blackwell Companion to Sociology, edited by Judith R. Blau, Oxford: Blackwell, 2001: 236-249.

3 Robert K. Merton, “Science and the Social Order”, Philosophy of Science, Vol. 5, No. 3, 1938, p. 334. Needless to say, I am not claiming that Kennedy is naïve in Merton’s sense; I claim that he writes as if his readers could naively confuse the causal explanation of something and the practical evaluation of its unsatisfactory or satisfactory character.

4 Michel Foucault, “Inutile de se soulever?”, Le Monde, 11-12 May 1979, pp. 1-2. My translation.