The Dialogical Turn

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

1 The Dialogical Turn

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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

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Johan Heilbron

3 Interdisciplinarity in Theory and Practice

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Neil J. Smelser

4 The Liberal Arts as a Dialogic Project

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Jeffrey C. Goldfarb

Part II Sociology and the Broader Intellectual Dialogue

5 Max Weber and Emile Durkheim in Dialogue: Classical Views on Contemporary Problems

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Richard Münch

6 Die Gesellschaft-An Early Transdisciplinary Project

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Paul Mendes-Flohr

7 Academic Intellectuals

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Andrew Abbott

Part III Sociological Reconstructions of Disciplinary Fields

8 The Maturity of Social Theory

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Stephen P. Turner

9 Embracing Bodies: Sociology and the Sociology of Sex and Gender

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Eleanor Miller

10 where Sociability Comes From: Neurosociological Foundations of Social Interaction

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Thomas Spence Smith

Part IV Dialogical Reconceptualizations within Sociology

11 Is There a Future for Sociology in the Bioglobal Age?

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Edward A. Tiryakian

12 Rationalization, the Constitution of Meaning, and Institutional Development

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Said Amir Arjomand

13 Interdisciplinary Reflections on the Civilizational Dimensions of Modernity

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S.N. Eisenstadt

Appendix

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Index

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About the Contributors

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