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Charles Camic
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

The Dialogical Turn: New Roles for Sociology in the Postdisciplinary Age

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AuthorCharles Camic
PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers
PublishedDec 06 2003
Book FormatHardcover
ISBN-139780742527102
Dimensions9.2 X 5.92 X 0.95 inches
Weight 1.18 pounds
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CategoriesSocial Science > Sociology - General
LanguageEnglish

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The discipline of sociology was born-and has been recurrently reconstituted-in response to the fragmentation of ideas about the social world. For two centuries, sociologists have sought refuge in synthesis: programs designed to integrate multiple perspectives within a unifying framework. Yet even as this cause has inspired many of the discipline's major thinkers, past and present, its objective has proven elusive, leaving nearly as many syntheses as synthesizers. This volume considers an alternative response that has recently developed within sociology to the crisis of intellectual fragmentation: the dialogical turn. Rather than decry the multiplicity of social theories, research methods, and results, this response welcomes a plurality of orientations and approaches as the essential basis for establishing and maintaining productive dialogue. Examining this exciting development, The Dialogical Turn builds on the ideas of Donald N. Levine, whose extensive writings on the forms and functions of intellectual dialogue provide the point of departure for twelve original essays. Written by an internationally renowned group of scholars, these innovative chapters explore the dialogical possibilities for sociology both constructively and critically. The contributors assess the role of sociology in the conversation across contemporary academic disciplines, exploring the fundamental structural and conceptual reconstructions now taking place in sociology and neighboring fields.

Author Bio

Ph.D. (Sociology), University of Chicago, 1979. Areas of interest include: classical and contemporary sociological theory; sociology of ideas/knowledge; sociology of science; history of sociology and social thought; historical sociology.

Prior to joining the Northwestern faculty, Camic was Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In recent years, his work has centered on examining the social processes by which the social sciences took shape and developed in the United States in the period from 1880 to 1940.

He is currently writing a book on the social origins of Thorstein Veblen's heterodox economics. He recently edited Social Knowledge in the Making (with Michele Lamont and Neil Gross) and Essential Writings of Thorstein Veblen (with Geoffrey M. Hodgson)

Source: Northwestern University Department of Sociology

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