Friday, November 20 / 8:00 AM - 9:45 AM • Room 220 (2nd Floor)

Session 56
Politics and Social Science: From Weber’s “Science as a Vocation” to Present-Day Discussions

Chair: Steven Pincus, University of Chicago
Discussant: Steven Pincus, University of Chicago

1. The Sociological Theory Canon in the Current Conjuncture • Julia P. Adams, Yale University.

2. Max Weber, ‘Value Freedom,’ and the Vocation of Scholarship in Early Twentieth-Century Germany • Joshua Derman, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

3. The Value of Facts: Institutions and Credibility in Contemporary Politics • Pariroo Rattan, Northwestern University, Weinberg College Postdoctoral Fellow in Science in Human Culture and the Department of Sociology.

4. A Morality of Science beyond Politics • George Steinmetz, University of Michigan.

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