@article{ref1,
title="Unpacking cosmopolitanism for the social sciences: a research agenda",
journal="British journal of sociology",
year="2006",
author="Beck, Ulrich and Sznaider, Natan",
volume="57",
number="1",
pages="1-23",
abstract="This article calls for a re-conceptualization of the social sciences by asking for a cosmopolitan turn. The intellectual undertaking of redefining cosmopolitanism is a trans-disciplinary one, which includes geography, anthropology, ethnology, international relations, international law, political philosophy and political theory, and now sociology and social theory. <br><br>METHODological nationalism, which subsumes society under the nation-state, has until now made this task almost impossible. The alternative, a ?cosmopolitan outlook?, is a contested term and project. Cosmopolitanism must not be equalized with the global (or globalization), with ?world system theory? (Wallerstein), with ?world polity? (Meyer and others), or with ?world-society? (Luhmann). All of those concepts presuppose basic dualisms, such as domestic/foreign or national/international, which in reality have become ambiguous. <br><br>METHODological cosmopolitanism opens up new horizons by demonstrating how we can make the empirical investigation of border crossings and other transnational phenomena possible.<p />",
language="en",
issn="0007-1315",
doi="10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00091.x",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00091.x"
}