The Dialogical Turn New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age

by Camic, Charles; Joas, Hans; Abbott, Andrew; Arjomand, Saïd Amir; Eisenstad, S N.; Goldfarb, Jeffrey C.; Heilbron, Johan; Mendes-Flohr, Paul; Miller, Eleanor; Münch, Richard A.; Smelser, Neil J.; Smith, Thomas Spence; Tiryakian, Edward A.; Turner, Stephen

• ISBN13: 9780742527102
• ISBN10: 0742527107
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-12-09
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Since its birth, sociology has struggled vainly to achieve an encompassing intellectual synthesis as it has fought against the explosion of ideas about the social world. This volume considers an alternative response that has recently developed to condit

Table of Contents

1 The Dialogical Turn	1	(22)
Charles Camic and Hans Joas
Part I Sociology and the Dialogue across Academic Disciplines
2 A Regime of Disciplines: Toward a Historical Sociology of Disciplinary Knowledge	23	(20)
Johan Heilbron
3 Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice	43	(22)
Neil J. Smelser
4 The Liberal Arts as a Dialogic Project	65	(18)
Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
Part II Sociology and the Broader Intellectual Dialogue
5 Max Weber and Emile Durkheim in Dialogue: Classical Views on Contemporary Problems	83	(22)
Richard Münch
6 Die Gesellschaft-An Early Transdisciplinary Project	105	(10)
Paul Mendes-Flohr
7 Academic Intellectuals	115	(26)
Andrew Abbott
Part III Sociological Reconstructions of Disciplinary Fields
8 The Maturity of Social Theory	141	(30)
Stephen P. Turner
9 Embracing Bodies: Sociology and the Sociology of Sex and Gender	171	(28)
Eleanor Miller
10 where Sociability Comes From: Neurosociological Foundations of Social Interaction	199	(24)
Thomas Spence Smith
Part IV Dialogical Reconceptualizations within Sociology
11 Is There a Future for Sociology in the Bioglobal Age?	223	(24)
Edward A. Tiryakian
12 Rationalization, the Constitution of Meaning, and Institutional Development	247	(28)
Said Amir Arjomand
13 Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Civilizational Dimensions of Modernity	275	(22)
S.N. Eisenstadt
Appendix	297	(10)
Index	307	(8)
About the Contributors	315