%0 Journal Article %1 beck_unpacking_2006 %A Beck, Ulrich %A Sznaider, Natan %D 2006 %J The British Journal of Sociology %K Cosmopolitanism, cosmopolitanism, downloaded, methodological nationalism, social theory %N 1 %P 1--23 %R 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00091.x %T Unpacking Cosmopolitanism for the Social Sciences: A Research Agenda %U http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-4446.2006.00091.x/abstract %V 57 %X 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. 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. Methodological cosmopolitanism opens up new horizons by demonstrating how we can make the empirical investigation of border crossings and other transnational phenomena possible.

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