International Cooperation in Social Sciences and Humanities
The INTERCO-SSH project set out to assess the state of the Social Sciences & Humanities (SSH) in Europe and to understand the factors that facilitate or hinder international exchanges. It aimed to outline potential future pathways that could promote cooperation across disciplinary and national boundaries.
The project used the tools of the SSH to study the SSH in their socio-historical context, including their relationship with the political and economic powers. It compared the process of institutionalisation of seven academic disciplines in order to identify the sociological factors that have shaped the “academic unconscious” of scholars. Furthermore, it investigated the transfer of knowledge between countries and disciplines, the geographical mobility of scholars and the circulation of ideas.
INTERCO-SSH project has been the first large-scale comparative project of the institutionalisation of seven disciplines in the SSH – Economics, Sociology/Demography, Political Science, Anthropology, Philosopy, Literature, Psychology/Psychoanalysis – in six European countries from 1945 (Great Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Hungary). It also analysed exchanges between those countries and other areas: the US, Latin-America (Argentina and Brazil), and countries in the Global South.
The approach has combined three perspectives :
- Constructing patterns of institutionalisation of the SSH
- Mapping the exchanges between countries and disciplines
- Analysing the circulation of paradigms, theories, methods and controversies
- FP7
- FP7
- Humanities
- Social Sciences
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