Frontiers of sociology / edited by Peter Hedström, Björn Wittrock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hedström, Peter.

Wittrock, Björn.

Institut international de sociologie. World Congress

Series:

Annals of the International Institute of Sociology ; new ser., v. 11.

Annals of the International Institute of Sociology, 1568-1548 ; v. 11

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Congresses.

Sociology.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

vi, 445 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2009.

Summary:

The 37th World Congress of the IIS focused on theory and research at the forefront of sociology and the relationship between sociology and its neighbouring disciplines. This volume constitutes a sustained effort by prominent sociologists and other social scientists to assess the current standing of sociology. It is a stocktaking of the unique nature of sociology in the light of advances within the discipline itself and within a range of neighbouring disciplines. Some of the chapters outline institutional and professional strategies for sociology in the new millennium. Others trace scholarly advances and propose ambitious research programmes drawing on recent developments not only within traditional neighbouring disciplines such as history, political science, and economics, but also within the cognitive, cultural and mathematical sciences.

Contents:

The Legacy and Frontiers of Sociology

The Emergence of Universalism: An Affirmative Genealogy / Hans Joas 15

The Social Sciences and the Two Relativisms / Raymond Boudon 25

The Return to Values in Recent Sociological Theory / Piotr Sztompka 39

Sociology and Political Science: Learning and Challenges / Jack A. Goldstone 59

Toward a New Comprehensive Social Science / Dietrich Rueschemeyer 67

Sociology and the Historical Sciences

History and Sociology: Transmutations of Historical Reasoning in the Social Sciences / Bjorn Wittrock 77

Axial Visions and Axial Civilizations: The Transformations of World Histories between Evolutionary Tendencies and Institutional Formations / S. N. Eisenstadt 113

Social "Mechanisms" and Comparative-Historical Sociology: A Critical Realist Proposal / Philip Gorski 147

Sociology and the Economic Sciences

Sociology and the Economic Sciences / Neil J. Smelser 197

Formal Theory in the Social Sciences / Richard Breen 209

Bourdieu's Contribution to Economic Sociology / Richard Swedberg 231

Sociology and the Cultural Sciences

Modernity as Experience and as Interpretation: Towards Something Like a Cultural Turn in the Sociology of "Modern Society" / Peter Wagner 247

Geocultural Scenarios / Ulf Hannerz 267

Sociology and the Cognitive Sciences

The Social Stance and Its Relation to Intersubjectivity / Peter Gardenfors 291

Shared Beliefs about the Past: A Cognitive Sociology of Intersubjective Memory / Jens Rydgren 307

The Analytical Turn in Sociology / Peter Hedstrom 331

Sociology and the Mathematical and Statistical Sciences

We Always Know More Than We Can Say: Mathematical Sociologists on Mathematical Sociology / Christofer Edling 345

Statistical Models and Mechanisms of Social Processes / Aage B. Sorensen 369

Causal Inference and Statistical Models in Modern Social Sciences / Hans-Peter Blossfeld 401.

Notes:

"A little more than half of the chapters of this book draw on texts that were originally presented at the 37th World Congress"--P. 2.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789004165694

900416569X

OCLC:

253634221