Frontiers of Sociology
The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology - Volume 11
Published on 31. January 2009
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All sociologists and all other social scientists with an interest in social theory, historical and mathematical social science, and in the history of social science disciplines. It should be a natural reader in any graduate and Ph.D. course in sociological theory.
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Peter Hedstroem | Bjoern Wittrock
Frontiers of Sociology
The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology - Volume 11
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01/2009
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Peter Hedström is Professor of Sociology and Official Fellow of Nuffield College, Oxford. He is one of the key contributors to the literature on social mechanisms, and he has numerous publications in leading sociology journals. He is the current Secretary-General of the International Institute of Sociology.
Björn Wittrock is University Professor at Uppsala University and Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. He has published extensively in the fields of intellectual history, historical social science and social theory. He is the current President of the International Institute of Sociology.
Björn Wittrock is University Professor at Uppsala University and Principal of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. He has published extensively in the fields of intellectual history, historical social science and social theory. He is the current President of the International Institute of Sociology.
Content
INTRODUCTION
Peter Hedström and Björn Wittrock: 'Frontiers of Sociology'
THE LEGACY AND FRONTIERS OF SOCIOLOGY
Hans Joas: 'The Emergence of Universalism: An Affirmative Genealogy'
Raymond Boudon: 'The Social Sciences and the Two Relativisms'
Piotr Sztompka: 'The Return to Values in Recent Sociological Theory'
Jack Goldstone: 'Sociology and Political Science: Learning and Challenges'
Dietrich Rueschemeyer: 'Toward a New Comprehensive Social Science'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES
Björn Wittrock: 'History and Sociology: Transmutations of Historical Reasoning in the Social Sciences'
S. N. Eisenstadt: 'Axial Visions and Axial Civilizations: The Transformations of World Histories Between Evolutionary Tendencies and Institutional Formations'
Philip Gorski: 'Social "Mechanisms" and Comparative-Historical Sociology: A Critical Realist Proposal'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Neil Smelser: 'Sociology and the Economic Sciences'
Richard Breen: 'Formal Theory in the Social Sciences'
Richard Swedberg: 'Bourdieu's Contribution to Economic Sociology'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL SCIENCES
Peter Wagner: 'Modernity as Experience and as Interpretation: Towards Something Like a Cultural Turn in the Sociology of "Modern Society" '
Ulf Hannerz: 'Geocultural Scenarios'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Peter Gärdenfors: 'The Social Stance and Its Relation to Intersubjectivity'
Jens Rydgren: 'Shared Beliefs About the Past: A Cognitive Sociology of Intersubjective Memory'
Peter Hedström: 'The Analytical Turn in Sociology'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL SCIENCES
Christofer Edling: 'We Always Know More Than We Can Say: Mathematical Sociologists on Mathematical Sociology'
Aage B. Sørensen: 'Statistical Models and Mechanisms of Social Processes'
Hans-Peter Blossfeld: 'Causal Inference and Statistical Models in Modern Social Sciences'
Peter Hedström and Björn Wittrock: 'Frontiers of Sociology'
THE LEGACY AND FRONTIERS OF SOCIOLOGY
Hans Joas: 'The Emergence of Universalism: An Affirmative Genealogy'
Raymond Boudon: 'The Social Sciences and the Two Relativisms'
Piotr Sztompka: 'The Return to Values in Recent Sociological Theory'
Jack Goldstone: 'Sociology and Political Science: Learning and Challenges'
Dietrich Rueschemeyer: 'Toward a New Comprehensive Social Science'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES
Björn Wittrock: 'History and Sociology: Transmutations of Historical Reasoning in the Social Sciences'
S. N. Eisenstadt: 'Axial Visions and Axial Civilizations: The Transformations of World Histories Between Evolutionary Tendencies and Institutional Formations'
Philip Gorski: 'Social "Mechanisms" and Comparative-Historical Sociology: A Critical Realist Proposal'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Neil Smelser: 'Sociology and the Economic Sciences'
Richard Breen: 'Formal Theory in the Social Sciences'
Richard Swedberg: 'Bourdieu's Contribution to Economic Sociology'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL SCIENCES
Peter Wagner: 'Modernity as Experience and as Interpretation: Towards Something Like a Cultural Turn in the Sociology of "Modern Society" '
Ulf Hannerz: 'Geocultural Scenarios'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES
Peter Gärdenfors: 'The Social Stance and Its Relation to Intersubjectivity'
Jens Rydgren: 'Shared Beliefs About the Past: A Cognitive Sociology of Intersubjective Memory'
Peter Hedström: 'The Analytical Turn in Sociology'
SOCIOLOGY AND THE MATHEMATICAL AND STATISTICAL SCIENCES
Christofer Edling: 'We Always Know More Than We Can Say: Mathematical Sociologists on Mathematical Sociology'
Aage B. Sørensen: 'Statistical Models and Mechanisms of Social Processes'
Hans-Peter Blossfeld: 'Causal Inference and Statistical Models in Modern Social Sciences'