Abstract
Debating Capital and Ideology: An introduction to the special issue.
Highlights
We should put his contribution in context
This special issue included many of the sociological good and the great, with Manuel Castells, Immanuel Wallerstein, Gosta Esping-Andersen, Goran Therborn, Ulrich Beck, Bruno Latour, Barbara Adam, Saskia Sassen, and Mike Featherstone all reflecting on social change at the start of the 21st century
Wallerstein was deeply critical of sociology's invocation of nebulous concepts of globalization and its reliance on “post-” concepts, and placed this within a bigger crisis in which the very disciplinary specialization of the social sciences was becoming dysfunctional, and “essentially crippling the ability of the students to think as social scientists
Summary
We should put his contribution in context. The 1990s had seen the fluorescence of “big picture,” but rather empty and hyperbolic social science caught up with the giddy moment of globalization. The British Journal of Sociology was delighted to respond with a special issue in 2014 to the provocation he posed by commissioning a range of articles that considered Piketty's book from different disciplinary vantage points.
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