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9780742527102

The Dialogical Turn New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age

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  • ISBN13:

    9780742527102

  • ISBN10:

    0742527107

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-12-09
  • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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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

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