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Futures Thinking

By Christian Dayé

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Futures Thinking

By Christian Dayé

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This book starts from the assumption that futures thinking is difficult, yet of existential necessity. We live in times where the future of humanity is at stake. Thus, it is important to understand where the images of the future that currently circulate in our cultures and societies come from. This book is about two fields in the social sciences that explicitly concentrate on: futures studies and the sociology of the future. Informed by sociological theories, it applies bibliometric methods to describe these two fields as epistemic tribes and territories. After reflecting on the historical reasons for this bipartite academic institutionalization, the book explores how the two fields could achieve a diligent division of labor that encourages forms of futures thinking that speak to the societal and civilizational needs of our times. Christian Dayé is a sociologist of knowledge, science, and technology at Graz University of Technology in Austria. A prolific author, he received the 2022 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award of the Section History of Sociology & Social Thought of the American Sociological Association for his monography Experts, Social Scientists, and Techniques of Prognosis in Cold War America (2020, Palgrave Macmillan). With Mark Solovey, he co-edited the widely acclaimed volume Cold War Social Science: Transnational Entanglements (2021, Palgrave Macmillan).
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Number of Pages:
140
Release Date:
2025-07-08
Publication Date:
2025-07-08
Publisher:
Springer Nature Switzerland
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
3031919408
ISBN13:
9783031919404
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
301 g
Height:
153 cm
Width:
216 cm
Thickness:
13 cm
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