Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Introduction: Frontiers of Sociology (Peter Hedström and Björn Wittrock)

pp.：  7 – 18

THE LEGACY AND FRONTIERS OF SOCIOLOGY

pp.：  19 – 20

The Emergence of Universalism: An Affi rmative Genealogy (Hans Joas)

pp.：  21 – 30

The Social Sciences and the Two Relativisms (Raymond Boudon)

pp.：  31 – 44

The Return to Values in Recent Sociological Theory (Piotr Sztompka)

pp.：  45 – 64

Sociology and Political Science: Learning and Challenges (Jack A. Goldstone)

pp.：  65 – 72

Toward a New Comprehensive Social Science (Dietrich Rueschemeyer)

pp.：  73 – 80

SOCIOLOGY AND THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES

pp.：  81 – 82

History and Sociology: Transmutations of Historical Reasoning in the Social Sciences (Björn Wittrock)

pp.：  83 – 118

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

pp.：  119 – 152

Social "Mechanisms" and Comparative-Historical Sociology: A Critical Realist Proposal (Philip Gorski)

pp.：  153 – 200

SOCIOLOGY AND THE ECONOMIC SCIENCES

pp.：  201 – 202

Sociology and the Economic Sciences (Neil J. Smelser)

pp.：  203 – 214

Formal Theory in the Social Sciences (Richard Breen)

pp.：  215 – 236

Bourdieu's Contribution to Economic Sociology (Richard Swedberg)

pp.：  237 – 250

SOCIOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL SCIENCES

pp.：  251 – 252

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

pp.：  253 – 272

Geocultural Scenarios (Ulf Hannerz)

pp.：  273 – 294

SOCIOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES

pp.：  295 – 296

The Social Stance and Its Relation to Intersubjectivity (Peter Gärdenfors)

pp.：  297 – 312

Shared Beliefs about the Past: A Cognitive Sociology of Intersubjective Memory (Jens Rydgren)

pp.：  313 – 336

The Analytical Turn in Sociology (Peter Hedström)

pp.：  337 – 348

SOCIOLOGY AND THE MATHEMATICAL ANDSTATISTICAL SCIENCES

pp.：  349 – 350

We Always Know More Than We Can Say: Mathematical S ociologists on Mathematical Sociology (Christofer Edling)

pp.：  351 – 374

Statistical Models and Mechanisms of Social Processes (Aage B. Sørensen)

pp.：  375 – 406

Causal Inference and Statistical Models in Modern Social Sciences (Hans-Peter Blossfeld)

pp.：  407 – 438

Notes on Contributors

pp.：  439 – 444

Author Index

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