• DOI:10.1177/0011392102050001010
Corpus ID: 146455945

Ethical Challenges for the Social Sciences on the Threshold of the 21st Century

@article{Vessuri2002EthicalCF,
  title={Ethical Challenges for the Social Sciences on the Threshold of the 21st Century},
  author={H. Vessuri},
  journal={Current Sociology},
  year={2002},
  volume={50},
  pages={135 - 150}
}

H. Vessuri

Published 2002

Sociology

Current Sociology

The position of the social sciences vis-a-vis society and scientificity is revisited. Throughout the 20th century the idea that all peoples in the world are part of a single humankind made a painful progress. Its legacy includes a record of great illusions and of a tragic balance, marked by the unprecedented growth of the capacity of social intervention as a consequence of scientific-technical advancement. The capacity of critique, of imagining new worlds, the construction of utopias, all… CONTINUE READING

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