This article calls for a re-conceptualization of the social sciences by asking for a cosmopolitan turn. The intellectual undertaking of redefining cosmopolitanism is a trans-disciplinary one, which includes geography, anthropology, ethnology, international relations, international law, political philosophy and political theory, and now sociology and social theory. Methodological nationalism, wh...

Behavioural analysis of criminal law exploits social science methodologies (behavioural economics, psychology and even sociology) to explore the effects of criminal law norms on criminals, judges, juries and other decision-makers, to determine the optimal type and size of criminal sanctions, to identify the optimal design of the enforcement system and the rules of evidence. Behavioural analysis...

Over the past 20 years, numerous scholars have called upon social scientists to consider colonial contexts within which sociology, anthropology and ethnology were institutionalised in Europe beyond. We explain how historical sociologists historians of international law, sociology can develop a global intellectual history what we call ‘sciences international’ by paying attention political ideas ...

As personal data are increasingly collected, analysed, and traded, we introduce the topic of Human-Data Interaction (HDI) to engage users with their data. HDI is inherently inter-disciplinary, encapsulating elements not only of traditional computer science such as data processing, systems design, visualisation and interaction design, but also of law, psychology, behavioural economics, and socio...

the concept of individualism in the field of sociology was introduced by the empirical scheme of one's position in society. the growing importance of the attention to this pattern affected by social changes has been rapid and rough. cultural and social processes of modernization and modern age always create new conditions and stimulus leading to changes and verities in methods of individua...

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first, it is argued that the rule of patterns, the natural consequences of matterialization of science,and the deliberate deviation of the western social sciences from theology are singled out as the factors which have led to the total ignorance of such subject as theology and sociology. similar cases happen in philosophy and science. due to the prevailing cultural atmospher in the west, such a...

Law is valid in many, quite different senses and forms, the content of validity far from uniform. Because, above all, it important to emphasise distinction between legal social law, paper spotlights elements encompassed by concept validity. Discourse on object meaning sociology law remains relevant its own right today, problematic nature interface scientific world evident beyond European jurisd...

Lipset's 'Democracy in Private Government' was a remarkable publication for three reasons. It was his first attempt to challenge Michels' 'iron law of oligarchy' and would lead to a programme of research that that would culminate with the publication of the widely admired classic study Union Democracy. Second, the inspiration for this work came from Lipset's student days when he was a socialist...