Séminaire scientifique de l’OSC : Andrew Abbott

mardi 4 juin 2013, 9h30-11h, salle Annick Percheron, OSC, 98 rue de l’Université

Andrew Abbott, Professeur de sociologie, Université de Chicago

The Thick Present: Locality and its Implication

Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor.
Abbott’s major research interests lie in the sociology of occupations, professions, and work, thesociology of culture and knowledge, and social theory.
Abbott also has longstanding interests in methods, heuristics, and the philosophy and practice of sociology.
Abbott has just completed a theoretically-driven textbook for library and online research. His current book project is on the future of knowledge, drawing on his papers on library research, research practice, libraries and publishing, humanistic knowledge, and teaching. He continues to work on his longtime book project in general social theory, setting forth a processual ontology of the social world. And he spends much time encouraging his friend Barbara Celarent in her exploration of the world’s classics of social analysis.