Sozialwissenschaften und Gesellschaft

The transfer of knowledge between (social) sciences and society has increasingly gained importance, and today enjoys priority on the academic policy agenda. But how is the relationship between the social sciences and society actually going? This volume investigates their mutual interplay and deals both with their historical development as well as current debates. From the disciplinary perspectives of the social as well as the spatial sciences, specific epistemological and cultural practices are discussed, and light is shed on the phenomenon of knowledge transfer in the public sphere via infrastructures and within knowledge communities. Questions from the history of science, science studies and the sociology of science supplement this relocation of the social sciences.