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(2004) Studies in East European Thought 56 (1).
Social scientists in times of crisis
the structural transformations within the disciplinary organization and thematic repertoire of the social sciences
Gennady S. Batygin
pp. 7-54
This is a contribution to thesociology and social epistemology of knowledgeproduction in Russian social sciences today. Inthe initial section, the epistemic status andsocial function of Soviet social scientificdiscourse are characterized in terms of textualforms and their modes of (re-)production. Theremaining sections detail the course of therestructuration of social scientific discoursesince the fall of the Soviet Union and draw onextant empirical sources, in particular studiesof bibliographical rubrics, thematicrepertoires, and current textual formsthroughout the public sphere and the academicestablishment in Russia. An underlying concernis the shifting status of the intellectual inthe wider socio-cultural context as reflectedin language usage and its textualembodiments.
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DOI: 10.1023/B:SOVI.0000007364.01092.90
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Batygin, G. S. (2004). Social scientists in times of crisis: the structural transformations within the disciplinary organization and thematic repertoire of the social sciences. Studies in East European Thought 56 (1), pp. 7-54.
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