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Preliminary Materials /Peter Hedström and B. Wittrock -- Introduction: Frontiers Of Sociology /Peter Hedström and Björn Wittrock -- The Emergence Of Universalism: An Affirmative Genealogy /Hans Joas -- The Social Sciences And The Two Relativisms /Raymond Boudon -- The Return To Values In Recentsociological Theory /Piotr Sztompka -- Sociology And Political Science: Learning And Challenges /Jack A. Goldstone -- Toward A New Comprehensive Social Science /Dietrich Rueschemeyer -- History And Sociology: Transmutations Of Historical Reasoning In The Social Sciences /Björn Wittrock -- Axial Visions And Axial Civilizations: The Transformations Of World Histories Between Evolutionary Tendencies And Institutional Formations /S. N. Eisenstadt -- Social "Mechanisms" And Comparative-Historical Sociology: A Critical Realist Proposal /Philip Gorski -- Sociology And The Economic Sciences /Neil J. Smelser -- Formal Theory In The Social Sciences /Richard Breen -- Bourdieu's Contribution To Economic Sociology /Richard Swedberg -- Modernity As Experience And As Interpretation: Towards Something Like A Cultural Turn In The Sociology Of "Modern Society" /Peter Wagner -- Geocultural Scenarios /Ulf Hannerz -- The Social Stance And Its Relation To Intersubjectivity /Peter Gärdenfors -- Shared Beliefs About The Past: A Cognitive Sociology Of Intersubjective Memory /Jens Rydgren -- The Analytical Turn In Sociology /Peter Hedström -- We Always Know More Than We Can Say: Mathematical Sociologists On Mathematical Sociology /Christofer Edling -- Statistical Models And Mechanisms Of Social Processes /Aage B. Sørensen -- Causal Inference And Statistical Models In Modern Social Sciences /Hans-Peter Blossfeld -- Notes On Contributors /Peter Hedström and B. Wittrock -- Author Index /Peter Hedström and B. Wittrock.

Cover -- Contents -- Series Note -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 - Sociological Inroads into Medicine: A Tribute to Aneeta A. Minocha (1943-2007) -- 2 - Food: The Immanent Cause from Outside-Medical Lore on Food and Health in Village Tamil Nadu -- 3 - State Sponsored Health Care in Rural Uttar Pradesh: Grassroots Encounters of a Survey Researcher -- 4 - Gram Panchayat and Health Care Delivery in Himachal Pradesh -- 5 - Occupational Attitudes of Physicians -- 6 - The System of Hope: The Constitution of Identity in Medical Institutions -- 7 - Voice of Illness and Voice of Medicine in Doctor-Patient Interaction -- 8 - Narratives of Sickness and Suffering: A Study of Malaria in South Gujarat -- 9 - Caste Variations in Reproductive Health Status of Women: A Study of Three Eastern States -- 10 - Informal Social Networks, Sonography and Female Foeticide in India -- 11 - Perception and Work Ethos of Medical Experts Dealing with Infertile Couples: A Study in Medical Sociology -- 12 - 'Correcting' the Reproductive 'Impairment': Infertility Treatment Seeking Experiences of Low Income Group Women in Mumbai Slums -- 13 - Risk Culture, Propertied Classes, and Dynamics of aRegion: A Study of HIV/AIDSin East Godavari District(Andhra Pradesh) -- 14 - Prison Inmate Awarenessof HIV and AIDS in Durban, South Africa -- 15 - Medicalisation of Mental Disorder: Shifting Epistemologies and Beyond -- 16 - 'Indigenisation' Not'Indianisation' of Psychiatry:An Anthropological Perspective -- Index -- About the Editor and Contributors -- Appendix of Sources.

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