Poziv: recenzije monografij na temo epidemija in družba
Call for Contributions: Monographs Dealing with the Topic of the Pandemic and Society

Summary/Abstract: The academic community and its theoretical production emerge and are constituted and developed through various forms of dialogue. The first is the dialogue of the academic community with itself, which occurs within the framework that allows for the exchange of substantiated views and theses, which can only gain theoretical status and, most importantly, applied value through joint assessment. Moreover, without dialogue there is no academic community, and without an academic community there can be development of theory. What simply remains is a set of statements that are neither proven nor evaluated, while extra-academic criteria of scientific excellence serve as a gauge for assessment. Another form of dialogue is the relationship between the academic community and the world. This not only implies the empirical validation of hypotheses, but also, and above all, the effort to maintain a continuous dialogue with the subject of study: society. Without this, the development of theory is not just isolated and empty, but unable to produce knowledge arising from the contact between the academic community and social dynamics. As Mills notes in The Sociological Imagination: without having contact with social dynamics, the academic community becomes either a courtly science, i.e. technoscience, or a “clumsy piece of irrelevant ponderosity” (p. 26).

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