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Sociology. A journal of the British Sociological Association| October 2014We hear it on the radio. We see it on television. We read it in the newspapers, online magazines, and blogs. We think about it on public transport and in hospital corridors; while taking children to school or queuing in supermarkets; at meetings and parties. Our imaginaries and daily experiences are saturated by the global economic crisis. Yet, to what extent are we able to translate this quotidian reality into adequate forms of knowledge? Has the crisis highlighted important limits in our sociological imagination linked either to the subdivision of our discipline or, more fundamentally, questioned the contemporary relevance of sociology as a social science?In an important sense, the global economic crisis presents sociology with a dilemma: can it continue to think its object of knowledge without rethinking the epistemological and methodological assumptions on which this knowledge rests. There is an urgent need to deconstruct and interrogate the formulation and reality of global economic crisis, and systematically and critically to investigate the specifically social processes underpinning its development and intensification. While sociologists have demonstrated how economic crises are precipitated through the social construction of markets, economies and economic knowledge, and the cultural-institutional configurations of late capitalism, there is a need to take this critical view conceptually beyond empiricism and hermeneutics, methodologically beyond the confines of disciplinary insularity, and practically towards public engagement. (...)Lire la suite : Global_Economic_Crisis_SOC_SI_2014_CFPDeadline for submissions: 31 August 2013