The Social Condition of Critical Social Science

Streeck, Wolfgang

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The Social Condition of Critical Social Science

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Streeck, Wolfgang
Institutioneller Wandel im gegenwärtigen Kapitalismus, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Streeck, W. (2015). The Social Condition of Critical Social Science. Talk presented at Les sciences sociales au xxie siècle (Humanities and the Social Sciences in the Twenty-first Century). EHESS, Paris. 2015-06-15 - 2015-06-16.

Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0029-4BDA-C

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The presentation will attempt to define critical social science and explore its relationship to practical politics and collective action. It will then examine the different roles contemporary society offers to critical social scientists, after the demise of the figure of “organic intellectual”. It will focus on the situation of a critical social science cut off from political power and influence and under pressure from neoliberal “reforms” of academic scholarship and teaching. It also considers the need for critical social science to assert itself in a pluralist public governed by market laws against the white noise produced by omnipresent mass media, both conventional and new.