Contents -- Introduction: Frontiers of Sociology (Peter Hedström and Björn Wittrock) -- THE LEGACY AND FRONTIERS OF SOCIOLOGY -- The Emergence of Universalism: An Affi rmative Genealogy (Hans Joas) -- The Social Sciences and the Two Relativisms (Raymond Boudon) -- The Return to Values in Recent Sociological Theory (Piotr Sztompka) -- Sociology and Political Science: Learning and Challenges (Jack A. Goldstone) -- Toward a New Comprehensive Social Science (Dietrich Rueschemeyer) -- SOCIOLOGY AND THE HISTORICAL SCIENCES -- 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 -- Sociology and the Economic Sciences (Neil J. Smelser) -- Formal Theory in the Social Sciences (Richard Breen) -- Bourdieu's Contribution to Economic Sociology (Richard Swedberg) -- SOCIOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL SCIENCES -- Modernity as Experience and as Interpretation: Towards Something Like a Cultural Turn in the Sociology of "Modern Society" (Peter Wagner) -- Geocultural Scenarios (Ulf Hannerz) -- SOCIOLOGY AND THE COGNITIVE SCIENCES -- 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) -- SOCIOLOGY AND THE MATHEMATICAL ANDSTATISTICAL SCIENCES -- We Always Know More Than We Can Say: Mathematical S ociologists 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 -- Author Index.