Laboratories of Social Knowledge

John Berten is a postdoctoral researcher and junior research group leader at the Faculty of Sociology of Bielefeld University, Germany. His research and teaching focuses on global social policy, social policy in the Global South, knowledge and ideas in policymaking, and the role of futures in global politics.

• Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Theory: The construction of a field of global social policy.- Chapter 3: 1919-2019: Social security policies in the ILO and the World Bank.- Chapter 4: Methodology: A discursive analysis of epistemic infrastructures.- Chapter 5: The development of a shared ontological framework in the interwar and WWII period.- Chapter 6: The development of a shared ontological framework after WWII.- Chapter 7: The development of a shared evaluative framework.- Chapter 8: Discussion: The making of global social policy through numbers.- Chapter 9: Conclusion.