The internationalization of Social Sciences: a reflection
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This article aims to analyse the process of internationalization of contemporary social sciences. It reflects on some specific issues related to the disciplinary development – social science history, particularly Sociology, and the way in which different countries have shaped the traditions of social thought- as well as some extra-disciplinary topics – such as scientific policies, the role of the State and the financing sources-.
The critic to the idea about monopolic of universality led to new realities that go beyond the north-south dichotomy, highlighting the heterogeneity of national intellectual traditions. Currently we are facing the growing belief in the rationality of evaluation, which is born within the academic field, and come from a productivist mindset that finds in the university and research institutions the place of its full realization. This belief is part of the internationalization of social sciences internationalization process and has become a world wide common sense.
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