Presenting the jubilee issue of Social Science Information: Half a century of social science publishing
From Social Science Information
This Special Anniversary Issue celebrates the journal’s ‘silver jubilee’ of 50 years of continuous publication. The thinking behind its editorial make-up has been to invite key authors and members of the Journal’s committees, those who over the years have become very close collaborators, to submit an original contribution. Defined frequently as ‘generalist’, ‘interdisciplinary’, ‘innovative’, and ‘original’ the contents of this issue faithfully reflect SSI’s orientations as well as its unique profile in the well-populated global landscape of social science journals. Many contributors over the years have gone on to become eminent in their field, Luc Boltanski, Pierre Bourdieu, Richard Dawkins, Michel Foucault, Erving Goffman, Bruno Latour, Alberto Melucci, Henri Tajfel, Laurent Thévenot, Alain Touraine to name a few.
Following an introductory article on evaluation, there are four main sections that cover:
- Theory and concepts in question
- The human and social sciences, and the challenge of the future
- Studies in science and technology
- New research tracks
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Link to table of contents
Perazzo, A. (2011). Editorial: Presenting the jubilee issue of Social Science Information Social Science Information, 50 (3-4), 301-307 DOI:10.1177/0539018411411629
We’ve looked into the feedback about Richard Dawkin’s contributions to SSI. We’re sorry that it’s not possible to read his contributions, as it turns out his involvement in the journal was through his participation in the very first colloquium at the Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in 1972 on ‘Animal and human ethology’ which gave birth to the section Biology and social life in the journal.
Can anyone point/link to any article that Richard Dawkins has published in this journal? Seems an odd choice but happy to be enlightened!