Experimentalism and Sociology

lt;b>Professor PhD habil. Tanja Bogusz is a sociologist and social anthropologist at Kassel University, Germany, where she has been heading the group "Sociology of Social Disparities" since 2016. She has earned grants for research projects at the crossroads of social theory, human-environmental relations, biodiversity research, and social cohesion (DFG, BMBF, FMSH, DAAD). In 2011-13 she did an ethnographic inquiry on marine taxonomy at the Natural History Museum in Paris that led to a study of a large international biodiversity expedition in Papua New Guinea. Stemming from her implementation within the expedition, a newly discovered species (Joculator boguszae) was named after her. She has published broadly on French sociology and anthropology (classic and contemporary), pragmatism and practice theories, social sciences of nature and sociological experimentalism. Before Kassel she was appointed as a visiting professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, the Collège de France Paris, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, and as a fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies in Erfurt. In 2017 she completed her habilitation in sociology at Friedrich-Schiller Universität Jena. 

Chapter 1: Introduction: Experimentalism - an Old Name for Some New Ways of Thinking.- Chapter 2: Categorial Foundations for a Social Theory of Experimentalism: John Dewey as Sociologist.- Chapter 3: Test Run I: What means Experience? Experimentalist Sociologies as Theories of Knowledge.- Chapter 4: Test Run II: What means Test? Social-Theoretical Effects of Experimentalism.- Chapter 5: Test Run III: What means Cooperation? Experimentalism as a Contribution for a Critical Social Ecology.- Chapter 6: Conclusion - from the Science of Crisis to the Science of Experience.