| Popis: |
The public research policy in the humanities and the social sciences in Sweden during the postwar period - linked to the idea of the welfare state - is the starting point of this article. Priority has been given to particular research themes facing society. At the same time, the general left-wing orientation and the concomitant interest in processes of modern society accounts for a genuine interest of a similar kind among many young ethnologists. The author's personal research policy is summarized in a four-point program arguing for a more courageous stress on synthesis, for more culture comparisons - preferably through interdisciplinary cooperation, for combinations of quantitative and qualitative methods, and, finally, for a theoretical involvement in the study of human beings, not only of cultural variation. |
