Where Are the Social Sciences Going to? The Case of the EU-Funded SSH Research Projects

This article investigates how the emergence of a European research funding affects the directions and processes of scientific knowledge production. It does so by examining the extended abstracts of the EU-funded research projects (2007–2013) realized within the broad domain of the Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH). By using some automated content analysis techniques, the essay tries to shed light on the interplay between the policy layer and the SSH field, taking into account the programmatic and legal structures inherent the 7FP, on one side, the national scientific systems and the disciplinary structure of the SSH field, on the other side.