How Social Science Creates the World is an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and UC Berkeley political scientist Mark Bevir who is an internationally acclaimed expert in the theory of governance. This conversation explores how attempts to shoehorn political science into a natural science framework commonly fail and how correctly appreciating what social science is and does has a direct bearing on our everyday social lives.
By adopting the false belief that the social world is composed of some unchanging, fundamental entities on par with atoms or molecules—be they markets or classes or what have you—we will have no means of recognizing, or even describing, what happens when circumstances change and a new social dynamic is created.
This conversation will be released in a carefully-edited video format. Available now is an enhanced book developed from the conversation, while Mark Bevir is also featured in 7 short documentaries – all details are below.
This enhanced book is available in electronic format on all major booksellers, including:
How Social Science Creates the World is also part of the five-part Ideas Roadshow Collection, Conversations About Politics, which is available in hardcover, paperback and electronic format.
Mark Bevir is featured in 7 short documentaries together with several other renowned researchers, including John Dunn, Quentin Skinner, Emilie Hafner-Burton, Nile Green, Pankaj Mishra, Jennifer Michael Hecht and Matthew Stwart.
