Section: Research Student Profiles

Christoforos Bouzanis

Name
Christoforos Bouzanis
Organisation
Sociology, School of Social and Political Science
University of Edinburgh
Address
Edinburgh UK
Telephone
+44 (0) 7867965231
E-Mail
Research Interests
social theory,the philosophy of social sciences
URL
http://www.sociology.ed.ac.uk/research_students/bouzanis_christoforos
Christoforos Bouzanis

PhD Title

Placing Self-Reference in Social Theorizing: From the Problematics of Constituent Epistemic Circularity Towards the Requirement of a Social Ontology of Reflexivity

  

EDUCATION

2008 – 2012

PhD in Sociology, University of Edinburgh (ongoing)

2007 – 2008

M.A. in Social and Political Thought, University of Warwick

2002 – 2007

B.A. in International and European Economic Studies, Athens University of Economics and Business

 

 SUPERVISOR

Stephen Kemp

 

 RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

My principal interests lie in the field of Social Theory and of the Philosophy of Social Sciences. Specifically, some of the focal points of my research are: the macro/micro problem in Social Sciences, the debate on the fact/value dichotomy assumed by positivism, the discussion about the relations among ontology, epistemology and methodology, and the disputes on the content and use of concepts like ‘rationality’, ‘Homo Economicus’ and ‘Homo Sociologicus’.

 

I am currently investigating the interrelationship between epistemic and agential reflexivity. The main point is to show how the epistemological problem of scientific theorization (and validation) is connected with socio-theoretical claims about the innovative role of agency. The research is trying to move towards a new conception of what one may call ‘The Social Ontology of Reflexivity’.

 

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS

 

Social scientific theorization as entrapped in various epistemic circularities: the vicious, the vulnerable and the virtuous; 'SOCIAL RELATIONS IN TURBULENT TIMES', EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION 10th CONFERENCE, GENEVA, 7-10 SEPTEMBER 2011

Reflexive versus reflective knowledge: from the concept of social ontology towards the need for an internal criterion of its epistemic status; 'METHODS OF THEORIZING: REFLECTIVE SEARCHES FOR WAYS, IDEALS AND MEASURES', INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL THEORY CONSORTIUM, 10th ANNUAL MEETING, 16-17 JUNE 2011, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK, IRELAND

Social science of social silence! A critique of sociological scientism; ANNUAL NEW DIRECTIONS CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, MAY 2011

The 'internal conversation' as an epiphenomenal process: a critique of Margaret Archer; THE BRITISH SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION ANNUAL CONFERENCE, LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS, 6-8 APRIL 2011

Epistemic reflexivity as a necessary condition of social theorizing; ‘CONTROVERSIES IN CONTEXTS’, PRAGUE, 9-11 SEPTEMBER 2010, EUROPEAN SOCIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, SOCIAL THEORY RESEARCH NETWORK (RN29)

For reflexivity: a critique to Michael Lynch; ANNUAL NEW DIRRECTIONS CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, APRIL 2010

Developing Reflexivity: Self-knowledge and Social Change in Contemporary Social Theory; ANNUAL NEW DIRRECTIONS CONFERENCE, UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH, MAY 2009

 

 

 

 

This page was published on 23 April 2012


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