Jaan Valsiner - Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences

Series Editor

Jaan Valsiner

Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Theory and History in the Human and Social Scienceswill fill in the gap in the existing coverage of links between new theoretical advancements in the social and human sciences and their historical roots. Making that linkage is crucial for the interdisciplinary synthesis across the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology, history, semiotics, and the political sciences. In contemporary human sciences of the 21st there exists increasing differentiation between neurosciences and all other sciences that are aimed at making sense of the complex social, psychological, and political processes. Thus new series has the purpose of (1) coordinating such efforts across the borders of existing human and social sciences, (2) providing an arena for possible inter-disciplinary theoretical syntheses, (3) bring into attention of our contemporary scientific community innovative ideas that have been lost in the dustbin of history for no good reasons, and (4) provide an arena for international communication between social and human scientists across the World.

More information about this series at http://www.springer.com/series/15826

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Jaan Valsiner

Social Philosophy of Science for the Social Sciences

Editor

Jaan Valsiner

Department of Communication and Psychology, Centre of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

ISSN 2523-8663 e-ISSN 2523-8671

Theory and History in the Human and Social Sciences

ISBN 978-3-030-33098-9 e-ISBN 978-3-030-33099-6

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33099-6

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Contents

Jaan Valsiner

Part I Social and Cognitive Roots for Reflexivity upon the Research Process

David Carr

Roger Strand

Sebastian Watzl

Rolf Reber and Nicolas J. Bullot

Anna Zadrona

Part II Philosophies of Explanation in the Social Sciences

Raino Malnes

Jaan Valsiner

Janis H. Zickfeld and Thomas W. Schubert

Henrik Skaug Stra

Part III Social Normativity in Social Sciences

Svend Brinkmann

Lars-Gunnar Lundh

Lars Wenaas

Part IV Social Processes in Particular Sciences: Challenges to Interdisciplinarity

Gunnar C. Aakvaag

Jo Thori Lind

Jaan Valsiner

Contributors

Gunnar C. Aakvaag

Department of Social Science, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Troms, Norway

Svend Brinkmann

Department of Communication and Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Nicolas J. Bullot

College of Indigenous Futures, Arts and Society, Charles Darwin University, Casuarina, NT, Australia

David Carr

Universidad Arturo Prat, Iquique, Chile

Jo Thori Lind

Department of Economics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Lars-Gunnar Lundh

Department of Psychology, Lund University, Lund, Sweden

Raino Malnes

Political Science, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Rolf Reber

Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Henrik Skaug Stra

Hgskolen i stfold, Avdeling for konomi, sprk og samfunnsfag, Halden, Norway

Thomas W. Schubert

Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Roger Strand

Senter for Vitenskapsteori (Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities), University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway

Jaan Valsiner

Department of Communication and Psychology, Centre of Cultural Psychology, Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark

Sebastian Watzl

Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Lars Wenaas

TIK-Center, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Anna Zadrona

Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Janis H. Zickfeld

Institute of Psychology, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

MZES, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Social sciences are crucial in our understanding of the increasingly globalizing ways of living in the twenty-first century. Rapid technological advancements in our societiesEast and West, North and Southare paralleled with resistances by traditional social orders to them. Local social norms and political control systems (Chaudhary, Hviid, Marsico, & Villadsen, ) constitute the braking systems in development. Development and resistance to it go hand in handleading to tensions in the building of new knowledge.

Societies worldwide are characterized by disquietude in which various kinds of tensions are constantly growing. The volcano of our global society can easily erupt into a new global wareconomic, discursive, in this volume)becoming a battleground of fights between various institutions? What can be the stake of a political establishmenta US president declaring a decade as that of the study of the brain or European Union requiring specific breakthroughs in its Research Councils science funding programs in the actual processes of scientists intellectual endeavors in trying to create new knowledge? What is the value of university administrators who expect scientists to bring in research grants with overheads in the actual making of new knowledge? These are difficult questions on the border areas of real