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Secretary Contents Christian Fleck From the Secretary ...... 1 Letter from the President, No. 2...... 2 Archive for the History of Sociology in Austria Department of Sociology Leo P. Chall Fellowship 1999 Winner ...... 2 University of Graz Interim Conference, Torun 2000 ...... 3 Universitätsstrasse 15 History of the social and behavioural A 8010 Graz sciences in the new International Encyclopedia...... 6 Austria Leo P. Chall Fellowship 2000 Announcement ...... 7 phone: +43 316 380 3544 New Members...... 8 fax: +43 316 380 9515 Lost Members ...... 9 email: [email protected] Recent Publications by Members ...... 10 News and Notes ...... 11 Directory of Members...... 12

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Executive Council From the Secretary Dirk Kaesler (Germany), President Our interim conference will be held at the Nicholas Copernicus University in Torun, Poland on June 1-4, Martin Bulmer (U.K.), Vice President 2000. The local organizer is Janusz Mucha and Donald Levine (USA), Vice President practical information will be given in a later newslet- Charles Crothers (South Africa) ter. Some of the session organisers have provided Sven Eliaeson (Sweden) outlines and a first call for papers is in this newsletter. To submit papers, or for further information, get Susan Hoecker-Drysdale (Canada) in touch with the listed people. Hans Joas (Germany) I'd like to invite everyone to send in their per- Hans-Peter Mueller (Germany, USA) sonal web site address for inclusion in a later edition Jill Niebrugge-Brantley (USA) of the directory of RCHS members. Dick Pels (Netherlands, U.K.) Regarding the membership dues everyone will find in the above right corner of his/her address la- Jennifer Platt (U.K.) bel the last year s/he has paid for. You can find In- Antoni Sulek (Poland) formation about the payment facilities on the last Luigi Tomasi (Italy, Cambodia) page of this newsletter. An easy to handle individual membership form for ISA is on the its website: http://www.ucm.es/info/isa/formisa.htm.

RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 1 Letter from the President, No. 2 There is a War in Europe going on, research in the area of the history of sociology in such situation. And to organise conferences and we deal with the History of Soci- about such themes as we do with this Newsletter. ology My answer has not changed, as you may imagine. If you could follow my ideas about the agenda for sociological intellectuals in the 21st by Dirk Kaesler century and therefore support my evaluation of the necessity of a sociological occupation with In my last letter I tried to give you my personal the history of sociology as being essential for the opinion of why we as sociologists deal with the preservation of the intellectual heritage of sociol- history of sociology, and why we should continue ogy you will agree that we have good reasons to to do so. When I wrote that the world-system is in continue what we have done. turmoil and in crisis none of us could imagine that Let us discuss this type of question in the some few months later this crisis turned into a heart of Europe, in Tartu. Not in a separate ses- War waged by some Western countries against sion, like "War as a theme in the history of sociol- the leadership of an European country. It may be ogy", although who ever feels qualified to do so that by the publication of this Newsletter the should step forward with organising such session, bombing and killing may be over, it may be that it but in all the sessions. I think and hope that we is still going on. have good answers. Such situation poses the question how we as sociologist, i.e. as those whose scholarly duty it is To communicate with me by Email: to observe, understand, foresee, and solve prob- [email protected] lems of their societies, justify to continue to do

Neil Gross, 1999 Winner of the Leo P. Chall Disser- tation Fellowship in the History of Sociology ism, crisis theology, the cold war, psychoanalysis, RCHS's Nominating Committee (Professors Patricia [and] European modernism…” (Dickstein 1998:9). Lengermann, Cornell University, Vladimir Kultygin, Then, beginning in the 1970s, a renewed inter- Moscow and Dirk Kaesler, Marburg) nominated est in pragmatism developed. In philosophy, a num- three candidates out of eleven applicants and the ber of well-known analytic thinkers (e.g. Richard Board of Sociological Abstracts selected Neil Gross Rorty and Hilary Putnam) began to argue that ana- as the 1999 winner of the Leo P. Chall Dissertation lytic philosophy’s rejection of certain pragmatist Fellowship. Congratulations! Below Neil gives an ideas had been ill-considered. At the same time, the overview on his project. few philosophers who had remained committed to C.F. pragmatism during the years of its decline (e.g. Richard Bernstein and John E. Smith) found new appreciation for their work. A scholarly organization In the first decades of the twentieth century, Ameri- – the Society for the Advancement of American Phi- can pragmatism – the philosophical viewpoint de- losophy – was founded, in part to promote pragma- veloped by Charles Peirce, William James, and tist scholarship, and a number of philosophers John Dewey – was widely influential in American associated with the organization began to publish universities. Although it did not attain paradigmatic prolifically on pragmatist themes (e.g. Thomas Al- status in any academic field, pragmatism was de- exander, Vincent Colapietro, Charlene Haddock bated and discussed by prominent philosophers, Seigfried). The principal journal of pragmatism, the sociologists, economists, theologians, educational- Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society, saw ists, and legal scholars, some of whom were deeply its pages swell with contributions, and The Journal affected by what the pragmatists had to say. of Speculative Philosophy, an American philosophical review that had been discontinued in the 1890s, In the 1950s and 1960s, however, pragmatism was brought back to life to serve as a second outlet receded from the forefront of American intellectual for articles written in the spirit of what has been life. Analytic philosophy, which became the domi- called the “classical” tradition in American philoso- nant intellectual orientation in most American phi- phy (the pragmatists, George Santayana, Josiah losophy departments during the period, pushed Royce, etc.). pragmatism out of the philosophical mainstream. In other disciplines, pragmatism’s decline “was abetted But the resurgence of pragmatism has by no by a variety of new influences including existential- means been limited to the discipline of philosophy.

2 RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 Recent decades have witnessed the publication of pragmatist movement began to crystallize. I then major studies of Peirce, James, and Dewey by intel- analyze the transcripts of interviews I have con- lectual historians (e.g. Joseph Brent, George Cotkin, ducted with pragmatist scholars (mostly philoso- James Kloppenberg, Robert Westbrook). Pragmatist phers, but also sociologists, intellectual historians, ideas have been incorporated into the social thought literary critics, and legal scholars – nearly 70 inter- of Jürgen Habermas, whose work has become views in all) in an effort to link the intellectual trajec- widely influential in the United States. Other social tories of individual pragmatists to this larger and political theorists (e.g. Hans Joas, Eugene Hal- structural context. ton, Robert Bellah, Charles Anderson, Marion I wish to express my gratitude to the Research Smiley, Timothy Kaufman-Osborn) have looked to Committee for the History of Sociology for their pragmatism for inspiration, as have literary critics willingness to support this endeavor. (e.g. Stanley Fish, Richard Poirier) and legal schol- References: ars (e.g. Richard Posner, Thomas Grey, Margaret Radin). Surveying this flurry of activity from the van- Dickstein, Morris. 1998. “Introduction: Pragmatism tage point of the mid 1990s, Kloppenberg Then and Now.” Pp. 1-18 in The Revival of Pragma- (1996:100-1) concludes that “pragmatism today is tism: New Essays on Social Thought, Law, and Cul- not only alive and well, it is ubiquitous. References ture, Morris Dickstein, ed. Durham: Duke University to pragmatism occur with dizzying frequency from Press. philosophy to social science, from the study of litera- Joas, Hans. 1997. G.H. Mead: A Contemporary Re- ture to that of ethnicity, from feminism to legal the- Examination of His Thought (Preface to the paper- ory.” back edition). Cambridge: The MIT Press. Kloppenberg, James. 1996. “Pragmatism: An Old What accounts for this renewal of interest in the Name for Some New Ways of Thinking.” Journal of pragmatists, a renewal that Joas (1997:vii) calls American History 83:100-38. “both unexpected and dramatic”? My dissertation attempts to answer this question by employing the Neil Gross ([email protected]) is a doctoral theoretical tools of the sociology of ideas – that branch of the sociology of knowledge that seeks to candidate in sociology at the University of Wiscon- understand the ideational practices of specialized sin-Madison. He is presently writing, with Charles knowledge producers. Drawing on the work of Alvin Camic, a book chapter on “The New Sociology of Gouldner, Randall Collins, Pierre Bourdieu, Charles Ideas,” and, with Robert Alun Jones, is preparing an Camic, and others, I try to develop a theoretical un- English translation of Emile Durkheim’s recently dis- derstanding of the process through which thinkers covered 1883-4 lectures on philosophy, to be pub- become attached to certain intellectual orientations. lished by Cambridge University Press. He is the co- In addition, I attempt to identify the structural condi- author, also with Camic, of an article in the Annual tions of the intellectual field under which intellectual Review of Sociology on “Contemporary Develop- movements – social networks that arise on the basis ments in Sociological Theory,” and is the author of a of these attachments – are likely to thrive. I then ap- 1996 article in Sociological Theory about Durk- ply this theoretical framework to the case of the heim’s 1913-14 lectures on pragmatism and sociol- pragmatist renaissance. Paying particular attention ogy. He has reviewed books for Theory and Society, to the discipline of philosophy, I first map the struc- Contemporary Sociology, and the Journal of the tural contours of the American philosophical field in History of the Behavioral Sciences. He will defend the 1970s – the decade in which the contemporary his dissertation in the summer of 2000.

RCHS-Intermin Conference, Torun, Poland, June 1-4, 2000 centre for academic conferences of a national and Torun international character. "An over 760-year-old town lying on the River Vis- Torun is one of only a few towns in Poland to tula, about 200 km north-west of Warsaw, Torun is have retained its former buildings largely unscathed, one of the oldest and, in the past, was one of the including city walls, Gothic churches, the Town Hall, richest cities in Poland. It owed its development and numerous townhouses and mansions. In 1997 mostly to its advantageous position on trade routes the town was included on the UNESCO World Heri- linking the south-western and north-eastern coun- tage List. Many scholars of merit in Polish science tries of Europe. It was also famous for the manufac- and culture, as well as in the international arena, ture of gingerbread. have come from Torun, including Nicholas Coperni- Today Torun has a population of over 200,000 cus, astronomer and creator of the heliocentric sys- and is an important agricultural, industrial, aca- tem, and Fryderyk Skarbek, economist and writer." demic, and cultural centre. It has several museums, Source: www.cc.uni.torun.pl/en including the Copernicus museum, as well as numerous libraries and theatres. There are three higher education establishments and various academic institutions. The city has traditionally been a

RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 3 Planned Sessions and Call for Papers General information regarding the programm of the Value-Incommensurability at the Turns interim conference: Below you will find abstracts for some of the proposed sessions and the names and of the Centuries addresses of the organizers. Sessions suggested About a century ago several scholars appeared with during the business meeting in Montreal and their similar anti-metaphysic messages, formulated rather proponents added at the end. Additional session independently from each other. The difficulties to may be suggested. Anyone who is interested to or- judge between different competing ultimate values ganize a session should contact the secretary and on rational and intersubjective grounds seemingly send him particularities about the topics. Deadline meant both problems and prospects for dealing with for submitting session is August 25, 1999. An an- uncontrolled value intrusion and objectivity, which nouncement of the session topics will be made in appears as a perennial paradigmatic divide over the the September 1999 newsletter. last two centuries. Those members - and still non-members - who There are clear affinities between Hans Kelsen's are interested to give a paper should send an ab- legal positivism, Weber's "scientific value- stract of at least 200 words directly to the organizer. relativism", the Finlandian sociologist Edvard Deadline für submitting abstracts: December 20, Westermarck's cultural-anthropological relativism 1999. A provisional program will appear in the and the Swedish philosopher Axel Hägerström's so January newsletter in 2000. called value-nihilism. Hägerström's negative value ontology is the most radical position, inspired by Biographies in the history of sociology Stevenson's "emotivism", claiming that there is no In the history of sociology we all are familiar with "science in moral, only about morals"; according to some very influential autobiographies (e.g. Beatrice Hägerström value judgements were to be compared Webb 1926), with famous historical biographies to sneezings or coughs, cognitively meaningless, (e.g. Marianne Weber 1926), but also some promi- "neither false, nor true". nent scholarly biographies of select sociologists The various expressions of anti-metaphysics (e.g. Hans-Georg Drescher 1991; Friedrich Lenger and anti-natural law "relativism" might well be seen 1994; Steven Lukes 1973; Arthur Mitzman 1970; as a response to what Ernst Troeltsch had charac- Kitty Muggeridge 1967; Mary Pickering 1994; Henk terized as the crisis of historicism, i.e. a moral crisis E. S. Woldring 1986). Not only have some of them of "polytheism" in the wake of the demise of natural impregnated our knowledge and impression of the law value objectivism. We need points of departure times and lives concerned but also shaped our for rationalizing means-end-oriented value hierar- ideas about the main ideas of these authors. chies but lack intersubjective criteria of selection. In this session papers are invited that deal with Several of the themes are "ever fresh". Both the impact and importance of biographies for the re- Weber and Hägerström are relevant for current construction and understanding of the history of so- "post-modern" debates about - for instance - "Be- ciology, but also with the challenge to write in this yond Left and Right", "The necessity of responsible genre from a sociological point of view. choice" and "Lokalvernunft" as well as "The End of Organizer: Dirk Kaesler (Institut für Soziologie, ideologies" and "the is-ought-gulf-question". The Philipps-Universität Marburg, Am Grün 1, Fronhof, wishful strive for firm value basis by neo-Aristotelian D-35032 Marburg, Germany; FAX: (49) 6421 - 28 refoundations and recent communitarians reflects a 8978; Email: [email protected] shift of the burden of proof, in dealing with a painful insight of Enlightenment. For instance Zygmunt Sociologists in Two Worlds Bauman's search for ethics seemingly shares the The aim of this session is to reflect on the life and problem formulation with a radical nihilist as Häger- work of sociologists who have spent substantial ström. parts of their adult lives in more than one country, Papers dealing with the problems of value- working in the context of different national sociologi- incommensurability and its perils and conse- cal traditions. There are many examples, including quences, and how this has been dealt with in vari- Florian Znaniecki in Poland and the United States, ous discursive communities (like Heidelberg neo- Paul Lazarsfeld in Austria and the United States, Kantians, neo-Thomists or US-Straussians), are Karl Mannheim in Germany and Britain, Norbert welcome. Elias in Germany, Britain and the Netherlands, Organizer: Sven Eliaeson, Box 3340, SE-712 94 Everett Hughes in Canada and the United States, Grythyttan, Sweden, Email: [email protected] Alfred Schutz in Austria and the United States, Ed- ward Shils in the United States and Britain, Claude Neo-Kantianism and the Problem of Val- Lévi-Strauss in France and Brazil, and so on. Pa- ues pers may focus on the life of the scholar, their work in the two different societies, the national contexts, Neo-Kantianism (1870-1930) is a critical period in or some mix of the three. A paired comparison German intellectual history when a number of think- might also be attempted. ers from many different areas took up the problem of values. As heirs to Marx and Nietzsche, thinkers Organizer: Martin Bulmer, Professor of Sociology, such as Toennies, Simmel, Weber, and Troeltsch University of Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 5XH, attempted to investigate in what ways values were UK. Telephone: (+44) 1483 259456 Fax (+44) 1483 introduced, continued, or changed by various peo- 259551; Email: [email protected]

4 RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 ple and differing groups. Thus, the problem of val- tial uses for them, which illustrate imaginative ways ues lies at the very foundation of classical German of using archival material, or which relate to the Sociology. The organizer welcomes papers on a topic in some other way. wide variety of topics provided that they are cen- Organizer: Jennifer Platt, Arts E, University of Sus- tered on the Neo-Kantians and their approaches to sex, Brighton BN1 9QN, Sussex, England. tel. the problem of values. 01273 606755 x2446; fax 01273 673563; Email: Organizer: Christopher Adair-Toteff, The American [email protected] University in Bulgaria, 2700 Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, Email: [email protected]. (I may not be in email Reificiation Revisited contact for this summer) This session aims to stimulate a dialogue between classical and critical theories of reification and fet- In Search of a 'Good Society': The Con- ishism, from Hegel and Marx to Lukacs and Haber- cept of Sociology as a 'Moral Science' in mas, and the stream of new theories which, by the History of Sociology taking a materialist turn, have reopened debates about the performance of social order and the on- The presentations during the session on this issue tology of social institutions. The materialist turn during the World Congress in Montréal in 1998 left taken by new approaches such as the constructivist several questions unanswered. This session contin- studies of science and technology, the anthropology ues this research on the different courses of the and geography of material culture, or the new soci- concept of sociology as a scholarly enterprise to ologies of time and space, emphatically points to- formulate scientific designs for the "good society" in wards the formative and grounding significance of different national traditions. The session will attempt ‘things’ in the stabilization of social reality - a fact to have input in particular from research traditions in which has supposedly been lost on mainstream so- Western and Central Europe. Again the subject dis- cial and political theory. The session will be con- cussed is: where does sociology stand in the debate cerned to inquire if, and if so, to what extent, with other academic experts about values and mor- classical and modern sociologies have indeed ne- als as we enter the 21st century? glected ‘object-centered sociality’, and what insights Organizer: Maarten Mentzel School of Systems a renewed confrontation with the historical record Engineering and Policy Analysis (SEPA), Delft Uni- may yield for a critical theory of reification. versity of Technology, P.O. Box 5015, 2600 GA Organizers: Dick Pels, Dept. of Human Sciences, Delft NL, Tel. +31 (15) 278 8458/8380; Fax +31 (15) Brunel University, Uxbridge, Middx. UB8 3PH, 278 3429; Email: [email protected] United Kingdom, phone: 31-20-5252262; Fax: 31- William James and Sociology 20-5252446; Email: [email protected], and Frederic Vandenberghe, Dept of Human Sciences, William James is remembered for his influence on Uxbridge, Middx. UB8 3PH, United Kingdom, Email: the development of psychology and philosophy. His [email protected] impact on sociology is much greater than it is gen- erally acknowledged. For instance, Durkheim deliv- The History of Predictions Made for the ered a series of lectures on Pragmatism in which Year 2000 William James is seriously discussed. Weber, Mannheim, Sorel, Mead, Cooley, Parsons and oth- During the last decades social scientists refer fre- ers have also felt the need to address James and quently to the year 2000 as a reference point for his ideas. Nevertheless, sociological theorists and predictions, and prophecies too. After arriving the historians of sociology have tended not to give magical watersheet date it seems to make sense to James the attention he deserves. The proposed look back to the some of the forecastings and panel is a timely opportunity to bring together pa- prophecies. This session will deal with sociological pers on James and his importantance to the history and historical analysis of some of these studies, of sociology, and to sociological theory today. their preconditions and discuss the validity of the proposed past predictions, in substantive and meth- Organizer: Jack Barbalet. Sociology - Arts, Austra- odological perspective. lian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra ACT 0200, Australia, Email: [email protected] Organizers: Christian Fleck, Dept of Sociology, University of Graz, Universitätsstrasse 15, A 8010 Archives on the History of Sociology Graz, Austria, phone: 43-316-3803544; Fax: 43- Archives are of central importance to work in the 316-3809515; Email: [email protected] history of sociology, and their character and roles and GallinaTasheva, Fakultät für Soziologie, Uni- merit serious attention. RCHS members might use- versität Bielefeld,Postfach 100131, D 33501 Biele- fully aim to reach some consensus on what kinds of feld, Germany, phone: 49-521-100273; Fax: 49-521- archive are needed, and then to do what they can to 1062988; Email: [email protected] get gaps in provision in their own spheres of activity bielefeld.de. filled. This session hopes to contribute to that proc- Schools and Research Programmes in ess, as well as encouraging creative use of the archives which are available. Papers are invited which Sociology and their Dynamics propose principles to be followed in the creation of The history of Sociology tends to be focused on the an adequate archive for the history of sociology, 'Great men' of the discipline, but in addition it is which give analytical descriptions of existing ar- clear that there have been important networks and chives (especially less-known ones) and new poten- groupings of sociological scholars, and their work

RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 5 and the social mechanisms at play in producing this Email: [email protected]. work continue to need exploration. This session of- Issues of Inclusion: Women Sociologists, fers the opportunity to explore the area of collective scholarship. Minority Sociologists, and the Sociologi- Organizer: Charles Crothers, Dept. of Sociology, cal Canon University of Natal, King George V Avenue, Durban, Organizer: Patricia Lengermann, 613 Utica St., Natal 4001, South Africa, phone: 27-31-2602442; Ithaca, NY 14850, USA, phone: 1-607-2777396; Fax: 27-31-2602347; Email: croth- Email: [email protected]. [email protected]. Author meets Critics Centenaries: Simmel's 'Philosophie des Suggestions should be send to the secretary, in- Geldes,' Jellinek's 'Allgemeine Staatsle- cluding names of authors, titles of books and possi- hre' et.al. ble critics. Organizer: Donald Levine, Dept. of Sociology, Uni- General Sessions versity of Chicago,1126 East 59th Street, Chicago, According to the tradition of RCHS papers who Illinois 60637, USA, phone: 1-312-7027917; Fax: 1- won't fit in one of the above mentioned sessions 312-7024849; Email: [email protected] could presented here. Fin-de-siècle revisted Organizer: Christian Fleck, Dept of Sociology, Uni- versity of Graz, Universitätsstrasse 15, A 8010 Organizer: Hans-Peter Müller, Center for European Graz, Austria, phone: 43-316-3803544; Fax: 43- Studies, NYU, King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, 316-3809515; Email:[email protected] 53 Washington Sq. South, New York, NY 10012, USA, phone: 1-212-9983717; Fax: 1-212-9954188;

History of the social and behavioural sciences in the new International Encyclopedia has no impact on the actual organisation of the vol- umes, since the encyclopaedia will be organised al- by Peter Wagner phabetically throughout.) On the one hand, the importance of this innovation should probably not be exaggerated, since we speak here of one section In its January issue, the RCHS newsletter reported out of thirty and of one hundred articles among about the project to edit an International Encyclope- roughly 5,000. On the other hand, though, its intro- dia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, an en- duction may signal a significant shift in orientation. It deavour that situates itself in the short but is a standard form for an encyclopaedia article, in remarkable tradition instituted by the Encyclopaedia whatever field, to start with an introduction on the of the Social Sciences from the 1930s and the In- development of the object or concept under study ternational Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences of over time. History in this sense has never been ab- 1968. Everybody who works on the history of the sent from reference works. In contrast, the ambition social sciences knows that traditions are problem- to provide a report of the current state of the art al- atic. One of their features is that, once constructed, most conventionally proceeds by distinguishing the they make changes within continuities visible. It is present from the past. Such historiography, how- telling, for instance, that there was a move from the ever, has mostly been classic Whiggish historiogra- British to the American spelling of 'encyclopaedia' phy, which sees past events as leading up to a from the first to the second of these reference present that is constitutively superior to the past. works. And the later edition carried the denomina- Time is then nothing but a marker of distinction that tion 'international' in its title, though arguably - one underlines the present. would need to design indicators - it was less interna- The introduction of a special section, in contrast, tional than its predecessor. As one moves to the acknowledges the historicity of the social and be- third edition, those title changes are kept, and in ad- havioural sciences themselves, as one may want to dition the behavioural sciences are added at this say. The specific task of the entries in this section is most visible level of evidence, the cover. thus to underline the continuous reshaping of the It is not up to me to comment on the overall out- social and behavioural sciences in historical time. lay of this new project, the editors-in-chief, Neil The forms of social knowledge are treated as his- Smelser and Paul Baltes, can speak with a more torical phenomena, be they institutionalised in aca- authoritative voice. However, there is one other demia and codified in disciplines or not. As a change which will be of specific interest to the consequence, the current form of these sciences is members of RCHS, namely the introduction of a no longer necessarily considered to be the 'highest' section on the history of the social and behavioural form that has hitherto been reached. Rather, each sciences in the preparation of the encyclopaedia, a approach to social knowledge stands in a particular section for which I act as the editor. (It may need relation to its as well as to our own historical time. emphasising that the existence of such a section The aim of this 'historical' section, therefore, is to al-

6 RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 low the readers of the encyclopaedia to re- Roughly, articles in this section fall into three cate- appropriate historical forms of social thought - be- gories. First, the emergence and development of yond gaining an overview over the contemporary schools, disciplines and approaches to the social state of research and debate. In a sense, the intro- and behavioural sciences are being discussed. Ex- duction of such a section recognises important intel- amples are eugenics, functionalism and the relation lectual changes since the 1968 edition was sent off of the social and behavioural sciences to the hu- to the publishers. manities. Second, the history of selected concepts In current jargon, the idea of a 'linguistic turn' in of these sciences is to be traced. Examples here the human and social sciences captures many im- are Gestalt, interest and work. And thirdly, the important aspects of these changes, if it is loosely un- pact of major historical events and processes on derstood as an increased attention to the language these sciences is to be assessed. Examples from in which the sciences express their statements, this section include the French Revolution, the so- propositions, interpretations and representations. cial question and totalitarianism. More specifically, parallel attempts to develop a his- For evident reasons, there will never be the toriography of concepts have emerged since the overview over the history of the social and behav- 1960s around the work of Michel Foucault in ioural sciences that one may dream of. First of all, France, by the 'Cambridge historians' around JGA space is scarce. One hundred articles of altogether Pocock and Quentin Skinner in England, by the 300,000 words may sound much. But it means that 'conceptual historians' of the Geschichtliche Grund- no more than 3,000 words each can be devoted to begriffe in Germany and by historians of historiog- the history of psychoanalysis or the impact of raphy such as Hayden White in the US. The Enlightenment thought on the social sciences. Sec- sociology of scientific knowledge has at the same ond, the authors one may want to enlist may be un- time sharpened its analysis of the development of available - for a variety of reasons an important one science and technology in their social contexts, al- of which is, not surprisingly, time. And it can be pre- though analyses of the social sciences have re- dicted, thirdly, that what will emerge under these mained remarkably scarce (a section on 'Science constraints will look different from what one ex- and technology studies' is edited by Sheila Jasanoff pected. The reason for this is that the social world for the encyclopaedia). In their sum, these devel- cannot be controlled - but this is an old, though opments have led to a re-opening of many issues in sometimes forgotten, insight of the social sciences. the social sciences that appeared to be solved and Peter Wagner, European University Institute, Flor- closed in the view of some of the contributors of the ence, and University of Warwick. 1968 encyclopaedia. The philosophy of the social sciences has revived, and issues of concept formation and methodology have returned to the agenda, often also entailing a reappraisal of many classical formulations (a section on 'Philosophy' is edited by Sociological Abstracts, LLC. Announces Philip Pettit and one on 'Logic of inquiry and re- The Leo P. Chall Dissertation Fellowship search design' by Thomas Cook and Charles in the History of Sociology Ragin). The Leo P. Chall Fellowship is open to Phd candi- At the same time, such critical reappraisal also dates who are writing a dissertation that is intended coincides with what is sometimes seen as a crisis of as a contribution to the history of sociology. the social sciences. The social sciences have been This $ 5,000 fellowship will be awarded in January on the rise from the late eighteenth century onwards 2000. in their currently still easily recognisable forms, such Applicants are requested to submit the following in- as the economic, statistical and sociological modes formation: of explanation. However, they may well whither (1) A limited précis (3 pages, single-spaced) of the away during a period in which social phenomena to dissertation proposal, which includes: which key concepts had been attached (such as (A) A description of the project. state, society, nation and class) are weakened and (B) An explanation of how the research will may turn out to be themselves historically ephem- contribute to the field. eral. If a social world emerged, in which there were (C) A description of the work completed to only individuals in truly globalised networks of rela- date. tions, the knowledge of that world would certainly (2) Plans for completing the dissertation. have to be different from social science as we know (3) Two letters of recommendation. it. While I take such an outcome to be unlikely and (4) A complete academic c.v., including exam re- even implausible already on the conceptual level, sults and grade transcripts where available. the very proposition demands critical inquiry into the (5) A listing of current or previous awards or fellow- relation between the history and the philosophy of ships and publications. the social and behavioural sciences. The deadline is 1 September 1999. Address your In the context of such considerations, contribu- submission to: tors to the section on the history of the social and Prof. Christian Fleck behavioural sciences are being asked to focus on Secretary of the Research Committee History of the ways in which concepts or currents of thought Sociology (RCHS) have developed under varying historical conditions Adress: see page 1 or on the ways in which historical events or processes have had an impact on social thought.

RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 7 New Members Andreas Hess played a hitherto underanalyzed role in the creation (Diploma SocSci, Universität Duisburg, Ph.D., FU and subsequent development of sociology, which Berlin). has consistently engaged in cross-cultural thinking. I am also interested in the history and current state of I am currently employed as a Lecturer in Sociol- critical theory. ogy at the University of Wales Bangor (since 1998). Before taking up the position in Wales I held a lec- Recent Publications: tureship in American Studies at the University of "The Exotic Effect: Foucault and the Question of Sussex (1994-1997). I had also been a visiting lec- Cultural Alterity." European Journal of Social Theory turer at the University of Marburg (Wintersemester 2 (1999). 1997-98). "The Adventures of the Structure." Thesis Eleven 55 Currently I am working on two projects. The first (1998). one is entitled "American Social and Political "La rencontre de l'altérité: vers une hybridité poli- Thought - A Concise Introduction" (comissioned by tique." In Pluralisme et délibération: Enjeux de la Edinburgh University Press; scheduled publication philosophie politique contemporaine. Edited by K. date: Spring 2000); the other, larger project deals Mellos and P. Savidan. Ottawa: Presses de l'Uni- with "The Semantics of Social Stratification" which versité d'Ottawa/University of Ottawa Press, 1999. looks at how concepts that were originally 'invented' in Europe were used - an thus enriched and trans- Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space. formed - in the American context. A third project is Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and An- still in its early stages: I would like to apply concepts thropology, La Trobe University, 1998 (co-edited that were first introduced by Albert O. Hirschman to with C. Houston and A. Watson). some aspects of the moral economy in the Basque "The Death of Myth and the Reechantment of the Country. City: Surrealism and Modernity in Interwar Paris." In Some recent publications: Imagined Places: The Politics of Making Space. Ed- ited by C. Houston, F. Kurasawa and A. Watson. Die politische Soziologie C. Wright Mills', Opladen: Melbourne: School of Sociology, Politics and An- Leske+Budrich 1995. thropology, La Trobe University, 1998. Unheimliche Begegnung der dritten Art: W.E.B. Du Bois, C.L.R. James und die westliche Zivilisation, in: Stanislaw Kozyr-Kowalski Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik Nr. 2 Major interests in the history of sociology: Hegel, M. (Februar 1997), 205-14. Weber, Marx, Simmel, Pareto, A. Marshall, Zwischen öffentlicher und privater Sphäre: Saloons Znaniecki. An attempt at transforming insights and und Mondscheinkneipen als gesellschaftliche Insti- theories of classic sociology and presociology into tutionen, in: Leviathan 3/1997 (September), 362-80. neo-classical sociology, sociological neo-classicism. C. Wright Mills, Franz Neumann und die Diskussion Historical work in progress: books 1) Sociologia, um die zivile Gesellschaft, in: Zeitschrift für kritische Spoleczenstwo Obywatelskie i Panstwo (Sociology, Theorie, Heft 7 (Oktober1998), 63-73. Civil Society and the State) (in print), 2) Classes and Social Estates. Max Weber and Contemporary C. Wright Mills (1916-1962), in: Dirk Kaesler (ed.): Theories of Social Stratification, 3) Hegel jako Klassiker der Soziologie, München: C.H. Beck 1999. socjolog, (Hegel as a sociologist), 4) The State Offi- Forthcoming: cialdom as a Social Estates. "The Individual is a Minority" - The Thin Line Be- An ordinary professor, Dr, a head of the De- tween Universalism and Particularism, in: Sound- partment of Theoretical Sociology in the Institute of ings, Spring Issue 1999. Sociology at Poznan University, President of the The Economy of Morals - An Attempt to Understand Florian Znaniecki Society, Vice-president of the Some Central Concepts in the Work of Albert O. Florian Znaniecki Foundation. For years he has Hirschman (Paper to be presented at the BSA Con- been lecturing on general sociology and classic so- ference "For Sociology" in Glasgow, April 1999). ciology. His writings and lectures are an attempt to This paper will appear in a slightly revised version transform into sociological neo-classicism a basic in: Review of International Political Economy. ideas and achievements of Hegel, K. Marx, M. We- ber, Scheler, Tocqueville, Durkheim, Scheler, Fuyuki Kurasawa Mannheim, Znaniecki, Comte and Spencer. The au- I am a PhD candidate in the School of Sociology, thor of books and treatises on theory of society and Politics and Anthropology, La Trobe University, Aus- methodology, economic and sociological compre- tralia. hension of ownership, social class and social estate My PhD thesis reexamines the constitution of (Stand). His writings also include an analysis and a European sociology from the 18th century onward, critique of ideology, a sociological approach to prob- highlighting the presence of an 'ethnological imagi- lems of truth, an outline of „logic of ideological think- nation' at the heart of sociological thought. It con- ing” and an attempt at positive overcoming post- tends that the pivotal relationship between Marxian Marxism and dogmatic anti-Marxism. sociological and anthropological knowledges has

8 RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 Recent Publications: The title of the (just started) thesis is 'Die In- „Ideologia i prawda”, (Ideology and Truth) in R. teraktion von Gesellschaft und Natur in Theorie und Cichocki (ed.), Teorie spoleczne a mozliwosci Diskurs der Sozialwissenschaften - Grundlagen praktyczne. (Social Theories and Practical einer Sozialen Oekologie' ('The interaction of soci- Possibilities) Poznan: "Media G-T", 1997, pp. 125- ety and nature in theory and discourse of the social 149. sciences -Roots of Social Ecology'). The thesis aims Stanislaw Kozyr-Kowalski, Andrzej Przestalski, Jan to show the potentials and limitations of various so- Wlodarek (eds.), Krytyka rozumu socjologicznego. cial science disciplines concerning the theoretical Praca zbiorowa z okazji 100-lecia urodzin Tadeusza perceptions of the interaction between society and Szczurkiewicza, (Critique of Sociological Reason: A nature on the one hand and an interdisciplinary co- Collection of Treatises on the Occasion of the operation with the natural sciences on the other Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of Tadeusz hand. The thesis will also point out how these Szczurkiewicz), Poznan: Zysk i S-ka, 1997, 652 pp. potentials and limitations are related to the history of ”Oblicza rozumu socjologicznego”, (Various Faces of the various social science disciplines. the Sociological Reason) in S. Kozyr-Kowalski, A. Dirk Raith Przestalski, J. Wlodarek (eds.), Krytyka rozumu socjologicznego. Praca zbiorowa z okazji 100-lecia Major interests in the history of sociology: Historical urodzin Tadeusza Szczurkiewicza, (Critique of differecnes of "national" types of sociological think- Sociological Reason: A Collection of Treatises on the ing, their rationale, and international diffusion and Occasion of the Centennial Anniversary of the Birth of adaptation - the question of "Americanization" - so- Tadeusz Szczurkiewicz), Poznan: Zysk i S-ka, 1997, ciological historiography pp. 13-56, Work in progress: „Zasady socjologicznej analizy wlasnosci”, (Rules of A case study on a "Chicagoan's" (E.C.Hughes) the Sociological Analysis of Ownership) in S. Kozyr- changing relation to Germany and Austria 1930- Kowalski, A. Przestalski, J. Wlodarek, Krytyka rozumu 1964, plumbing the notion(s) of "Americanization", socjologicznego. Praca zbiorowa z okazji 100-lecia not least under the aspect of sociology of knowl- urodzin Tadeusza Szczurkiewicza, Poznan: Zysk i S- edge. ka Wydawnictwo, 1997, pp. 382-407. „Klasycy socjologii i nowe czasy”, (Classics of Sociology and the New Times) in K. Doktor, W. Kwasniewicz, A. Kwilecki (eds.), Socjologia: Teoria i dzialanie. Ksiega pamiatkowa ku czci Wladyslawa Lost Members Markiewicza, (Sociology: Theory and Action. The

Book Devoted to Wladyslaw Markiewicz), Warszawa: The following members seems to have changed their IFiS PAN, 1997, pp. 83-101. addresses without informing the secretary: „Ortodoksja po starogrecku i mit po Sorelowsku”,

(Orthodoxy in Ancient Greek and Myth in Sorel’s Ola Agevall, University of Växjö, Sweden, Language) Samorzadnosc Robotnicza, (The Workers’ Xavier G. Dixon-Speel, Minden, Germany Self-Government) No. 17, 1997, pp. 17-19. Lynda Rynbrandt, Western Michigan University, USA. „Ideology and Truth”, Dialogue and Universalism, Vol.

VII, No. 5-6, 1997, pp. 141-165. Everyone who knows a valid address is invited to ”Urzednicy panstwa jako stan spoleczny”, (State’s inform the secretary. Officialdom as a Modern Social Estate) in R. Kozlowski (ed.), Hegel a wspólczesnosc, (Hegel and the Contemporary World), Poznan: Wydawnictwo Poznanskiego Towarzystwa Przyjaciol Nauk, 1997, pp. 100-131. „Hegel nauki a Hegel ideologii”, (Hegel of Social Science versus Hegel of Ideology), Przeglad Religioznawczy, (The Review of Religion Study), 1997, No. 3 (185), pp. 35-61. „Microclass and Macroclass of Society”, Dialogue and Universalism, Vol. VIII, No. 7-8 / 1998, pp. 195-217. Juliana Lutz I studied Sociology at the University of Vienna, leading to a 'Magister'. My Diploma thesis is titled 'Der Naturbegriff und das Gesellschaft-Natur-Verhaeltnis in der fruehen Soziologie' ('The concept of nature and the relationship between society and nature within early sociology' ). This is still one of my main interests. Currently I work in the Department of Social Ecology at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies of Austrian Universities (IFF), where I write my Ph.D. thesis.

RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 9 Recent Publications by Members

Gonzalo Catano "Geschichte und Gegenwart im Werk Max Webers" (Past and and Present in Max Weber's Works). Pp. Historia, Sociologia y Politica: Ensayos de Historia y 76-115 in Frank Welz and Uwe Weisenbacher, eds., Sociologia de las ideas [History, sociology and poli- Soziologische Theorie und Geschichte: Die Bedeu- tics: essays in sociology and history of ideas], Bo- tung der Geschichte für die soziologische Theorie. gota: Plaza & Janes 1999, 282 pp. Düsseldorf: Westdeutscher Verlag, 1998. Jacques Coenen-Huther "Max Weber's Sociology: Research Strategies and Modes of Analysis." Pp. 208-41 in Charles Camic, "The paths of recognition: Boudon, Bourdieu and ed., Reclaiming the Argument of the Founders. the 'second market' of intellectuals," International Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1997. Journal of Contemporary Sociology 35. 1998, no.2., 208-216. "Max Weber's Reflections on the American Political Culture Today: an 'Iron Cage?'" Partisan Review "Relation interpersonnelle, interaction et transaction. Lxiv, 2 (April, 1997): 196-205. Published in German En marge de l'œvre de Raymond Boudon," Revue in Sociologia Internationalis 36, 1 (March, 1998): 1- européenne des sciences sociales, tome XXXVI, 14 (slightly revised). 1998, Nº 112, pp. 247-262. "Formes et ambiguïtés de la compréhension en Lynn McDonald situation d'oberservation," Cahiers internationaux de Women Theorists on Society and Politics, Wilfrid Sociologie, Vol. CIV, 1998, pp. 77-96. Laurier University Press 1998, Paper 336 pp. Willy Guneriussen Jennifer Mergy Published in norwegian. The first is on foundational Nations et nationalismes dans le débat sociologique issues in social science - and uses the classical tra- français 1870-1940 (doctorat de sciences poltiques, dition to develop different concepts of actors, struc- Université de Paris IX) tures etc. "La Politique de Demain selon Emile Durkheim", Aktør, Handling og struktur. Grunnlagsproblemer i Etudes durkheimiennes/Durkheim Studies, vol. 5, Samfunnsvitenskapene [Actor, action and structure. n.s., 1999 Foundational problems in social science], Oslo: "Notes Critiques - Sciences Sociales" (1900-1906). Tano Aschehoug Forlag, 2. utgave, 1999, 390 pp. Bibliographie critique des sciences sociales nais- (2nd extended edition in January 1999. The 1th edi- santes (recueil de textes). tion also translated into Swedish.) The second book is on different conceptions of Janusz Mucha modernity within classical and contemporary social (Ed.) Dominant Culture as a Foreign Culture Domi- theory. It tries particularly to uncover the (often un- nant Groups in the Eyes of Minorities, New York: noticed) romantic conceptions of modernity within East European Monographs and Columbia Univer- the different traditions. sity Press 1999, ISBN 0-88033-410-X. Å forstä det moderne. Framskrittstro, rasjonalitet, ambivalense og irrasjonalitet i diskursen om det Anele Vosyliute moderne [Understanding modernity. Progress, Ra- (Ed.) Išs Lietuvos sociologijos istorijos [From the tionality, Ambiguity and Irrationality in the Discourse history of sociology in Lithutania] II knyga, Vilnius of Modernity], Oslo: Tano Aschehoug Forlag 1999, 1999, 250pp. 300 pp. Frank Welz Pat Duffy Hutcheon (Ed. with U. Weisenbacher) Soziologische Theorie "Response to Michael Ruse' Review of 'Leaving the und Geschichte, Opladen/Wiesbaden: West- Cave'", Studies in Philosophy and Education 17 deutscher Verlag, 1998. (Winter 1998), 159-62. Building Character and Culture, Westport, CT: Praeger Publications, 1999, 304 pp. $69.95. Paper- back, 304 pages, $24.95. Stephen Kalberg "Tocqueville and Weber on the Sociological Origins of Citizenship: The Political Culture of American Democracy." Citizenship Studies 1 (July, 1997): 199-222. Slightly abridged version reprinted in: Max Weber: Democracy and Nationalism, ed. by Ralph Schroe- der (London: Macmillan, 1998).

10 RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 News and Notes

Wozu taugt ein Klassiker-Kanon in der Gary Alan Fine (Northwestern University, Evans- ton), Framing Norms: The Culture of Expectation gegenwärtigen Soziologie? Wissen- and Explanations schaftliche Konferenz anläßlich des Er- Knowledge in Society: Rationality and Irrationality scheinens der "Klassiker der Soziologie" Zygmunt Bauman (University of Leeds), On Under- standing Sociology and Understanding through So- Samstag, 17. Juli 1999, 14 – 19 Uhr, Senatssaal der ciology - or on Florian Znaniecki, the Forerunner of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6 the Hermeneutic Shift Programm: Janusz Gockowski (Jagiellonian University, Kra- Prof. Dr. Hartmut Häußermann (Berlin) Begrüßung kow), Epistemic and Technical Function of Sociol- Prof. Dr. Dirk Kaesler (Marburg, Berlin) Was sind ogy und zu welchem Ende studiert man die Klassiker Social Person: Socialization and Individualization der Soziologie? Horst J. Helle (Ludwig-Maximilian’s University, Mu- Prof. Dr. Hans-Leo Krämer (Saarbrücken) Die un- nich), Similarieties in the Work of Simmel and entschiedene Kanonisierung der Klassiker in Frank- Znaniecki reich – zwischen Human- und Leszek Korporowicz (University of Warsaw), Inter- Sozialwissenschaften. active Personality as a Challenge in the World of In- Prof. Dr. Klaus Allerbeck (Frankfurt) Klassiker der teracting Cultures Methodologie? State, Nation, Church and World Society: Integra- Prof. Dr. Erhard Stölting (Potsdam) Gipfel, tion and Globalization Schluchten, Hochebenen – Die wissenschaftliche Helena Znaniecka-Lopata (Loyola University, Chi- Landschaft. cago), The Cosmopolitan Community of Scholars Dr. Andreas Hess (Bangor) Sociology vs. Cultural and Znaniecki’s Fifth Type of Society: World Studies = Universalism vs. Particularism: The state Joanna Kurczewska (Institut of Philosophy and So- of sociology from a C. Wright Mills perspective. ciology Polish Academy of Science, Warsaw), Dr. Cornelius Bickel (Kiel) Was lernen wir von Tön- Florian Znaniecki Ideas and Contemporary Nations nies? of Central and Eastern Europe Prof. Dr. Rolf Lindner (Berlin) Robert Park als liter- Jan Turowski (Catholic University of Lublin), Florian arischer Held. Znaniecki’s Concept of the Nation and the Problem of Overcoming National Antagonisms Florian Znaniecki’s Sociological Theory Social Actions: Conflict and Cooperation and the Challenges of the 21st Century Elzbieta Halas (Catholic University of Lublin), Affec- tive Society: Sentiments and Symbolic Interactions Report on an International Conference, Dabrowica Marek Ziolkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, n. Lublin, Poland, 22-24 September 1998 Poznan, Poland), Interests and Values as elements of Social Consciousness This symposium has been organized by Elzbieta The Legacy of Methodological Note: Explanation Halas, director of the Chair of Sociology at Catholic and Interpretation of Social Change University of Lublin, to honor the 115th anniversary Luigi Tomasi (University of Trento), The Collabora- of the birth, the 40th aniversary of the passing of tion between William I. Thomas and Florian Florian Znaniecki as well as the 80th anniversary of Znaniecki: The Actuality of Methodological Note the publication of "Methodological Note" to the Zygmunt Dulczewski (Adam Mickiewicz University, landmark in sociology The Polish Peasant in Europe Poznan), The Actuality of Methodological Note and America. The aim of the conference was to con- Gabriel Cappai (University of Bayreuth), Migrant tribute to the integration of the heritage of the 20th Organizations: Their Order and Evolution century through the enlivening of the interpretation Jerzy Smolicz and Margaret Secombe (University of of Znanecki’s works by reference to vital contempo- Adelaide), Znaniecki’s Memoir Methodology and rary problems around six leading themes encom- Changing Attitudes to Cultural Pluralism Among An- passing problem areas studied by Znaniecki and glo-Australian University Students carrying theoretical as well as practical challenges Stanislaw Wargacki (Catholic University of Lublin), of the turn of the 20th century: Socio-Cultural Change in Papua-New Guinea Con- Pluralistic Cultural Reality Universalism and Local- text ism Adam Szafranski (Catholic University of Lublin), Richard Grathoff (University of Bielefeld), From Cul- Cultural Symbols of Social Order tural Reality to the Cultural Sciences (Chicago- A Publication of the papers in Polish and English is Poznan-Champaign): The Trajectory of a Sociolo- planed. gist at Work Piotr Pawliszak, Institut of Sociology, Catholic Uni- Pierpaolo Donati (University of Bolonia), The Chal- versity of Lublin, Aleje Raclawickie 14, 20-950 Lub- lenge of Universalism in a Multicultural Postmodern lin, Poland. Society: A Relational Approach

RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 11 Directory of RCHS Members Dr. Christopher Adair-Toteff Peter Beilharz Professor Juan José Castillo American University in Bulgaria, Dept of Sociology, La Trobe Alonso BG 2700 Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA University, Bundoora, Vic 3083, Dept. Sociologia III, Desp. 2213, Fax: 359-73-25394; AUSTRALIA Universidad Complutense, Campus email: [email protected] phone: 61-3-94792753; Fax: 61-3- de Somosaguas, Facultad de Asst. Prof. Stephanie Adair-Toteff 94792705; Ciencias Politicas y Sociología, E American University in Bulgaria, email: [email protected] 28223 Madrid, SPAIN BG 2700 Blagoevgrad, BULGARIA Erik Berggren phone: 34-91-3942874; Fax: 34-91- Fax: 359-73-25394; Sofiagatan 5, SW 11640 Stock- 3942876; email: email: [email protected] holm, SWEDEN [email protected] Kamini Adhikari phone: 46-8-6409962; Fax: 46-13- Gonzalo Catano 4F Hemchhaya, 40 Ironside Rd., 133630; email: [email protected] Calle 80 No. 7-25, Apto. 802, Calcutta, 700019, INDIA Prof. Jean Michel Berthelot Bogota, COLUMBIA phone: 91-33-2475842; Fax: 91-33- 17 rue Saint Henri, F 31000 email: 4748490; Toulouse, FRANCE [email protected] Professor Martin C. Albrow phone: 33-5-61628674; Fax: 33-5- Prof. Dr. Nilgun Celebi Dept. of Sociology, Roehampton 61628674; email: [email protected] Dept of Sociology, Faculty of Institute,Roehampton Lane, Margareta Bertilsson Letters, Ankara University, TR London, SW19 5SL, U.K. Sociologisk Institut, Københavns 06100 Ankara, TURKEY phone: 44-181-3923194; Fax: 44- Universitet,Linnésgade 22, DK- phone: 90-312-4686763; Fax: 90- 181-3923518; 1361 København K, DENMARK 312-3105713; email: [email protected] email: [email protected] email: [email protected] Professor Jeffrey C. Alexander Dieter Bögenhold Dr. Jean-Michel Chapoulie Dept. of Sociology, UCLA,405 Muellers Pad 6, D 26160 Bad ENS Fontenay, Saint-Cloud,31, av. Hilgard Avenue, Los Angeles, CA Zwischenahn, GERMANY Lombart, BP 81, F 92211 90024, USA phone: 49-4403-1441; Fax: 49- Fontenay-aux-Roses, FRANCE phone: 1-213-8253840; Fax: 1-213- 4403-1371; phone: 33-1-411325325; Fax: 33-1- 2069838; email: email: [email protected] 41132599; [email protected] Prof. Elssy Bonilla Prof. Brij Raj Chauhan Paulo C. Alves Cra 51 #215-55, Bogota, COLOMBIA Opposite M.B.College,2 Avda. Euclides da Cunha 475, Apt. phone: 57-1-284991; Darshanpura Colony, Rajasthan, 901, Graça, Salvador (Bahia) email: [email protected] Udaipur 313001 INDIA BRASIL Professor Kay Richards Broschart Anthony S. Chen phone: 55-71-2372806; Fax: 55-71- Dept. of Sociology, Hollins Dept of Sociology, University of 2454962; College,POB 9575, Roanoke, VA California,410 Barrows Hall, #1980, email: [email protected] 24020, USA Berkeley, CA 94720-1980, USA Kevin Anderson phone: 1-540-3626248; Fax: 1-540- phone: 1-510-6424766; Fax: 1-510- 1642 East 56th St., Apt. 608, 3626286; 6420659; email: Chicago, IL 60637, USA email: [email protected] [email protected] phone: 1-815-7530365; Fax: 1-815- Professor Martin Bulmer Alain Chenu 7536302; Dept. of Sociology, University of 5 avenue de l’Observatoire, F email: [email protected] Surrey, Guildford, Surrey GU2 75006 Paris, FRANCE Bjarne Andersson 5XH, U.K. phone: 33-1-55429430; Fax: 33-1- Roskilde University,Box 258, phone: 44-1483-259456; Fax: 44- 55429430; Marbjergvej 35, DK 4000 Roskilde, 1483-306290; email: [email protected] DENMARK email: [email protected] Patricia Clancy email: [email protected] Professor John Burnham Hawaii Pacific University,1166 Fort Paulina Aronson Dept. of Sociology, Ohio State St., Honolulu, HI 96813, USA Sanabria 3006, 1417 Buenos Aires, University,230 W. 17th Avenue, phone: 1-808-2477479; ARGENTINA Columbus, OH 43210-1367, USA Professor Terry N. Clark phone: 54-1-5660166; phone: 1-614-2925465; Fax: 1-614- 2801 King Dr #1918, Chicago, IL email: [email protected] 2922282; email: 60616, USA Veli Matti Autio [email protected] phone: 1-312-8425169; Fax: 1-312- Aidasmaentie 32 B, SF 00650 Professor Charles Camic 8420185; email: Helsinki, FINLAND Dept of Sociology, Social Science [email protected] phone: 358-0-7523172; Fax: 358-0- Building, University of Wisconsin- Prof. Dr. Lars Clausen 520072; email: Madison,1180 Observatory Drive, Wehlbrook 30, D 22143 Hamburg, [email protected] Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA GERMANY Dr. Karl-Ludwig Ay phone: 1-608-2622753; Fax: 1-608- phone: 49-431-8802167; Fax: 49- Lochhauser Str. 82, D-82178 2655389; email: 431-8803467; email: Puchheim, GERMANY [email protected] [email protected] Dr. Jack M. Barbalet Jordi Cassa I Valles Prof. Dr. Jacques Coenen-Huther Sociology - Arts, Australian Enric Granados 6 - Principal, E Département de Sociologie, National University, GPO Box 4, 08007 Barcelona, SPAIN Université de Genève, CH 1211 Canberra, ACT 0200, AUSTRALIA phone: 34-934549863; Fax: 34- Genève 4, SWITZERLAND email: [email protected] 934515507; phone: 41-22-7058302; Fax: 41-22-

12 RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 7814100; Salammbo, TUNISIA Prof David P. Frisby email: [email protected] Dept. of Sociology, University of Professor Lewis A. Coser Michael Donnelly Glasgow,Adam Smith Building, 27 Shepard Street, Cambridge, MA Dept. of Sociology, University of Glasgow, G12 8RT, UNITED 02138, USA New Hampshire,Horton 416, KINGDOM Professor Luiz de Aguiar Costa Durham, NH 03824, USA Dr Jan Marie Fritz Pinto email: [email protected] 7300 Aracoma Forest Drive, 173 Briarcliffe Crescent, Waterloo, Felicitas M. Dörr-Backes Cincinnati, OH 45237, USA Ontario N2L 5TJ, CANADA Institut für Soziologie, Ludwig- phone: 1-513-5560208; Fax: 1-513- 5561274; email: [email protected] Professor Stefan Costea Maximilians- Sector 2, Str. 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RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 13 3636160; 591564; Ioannina, GR 453 32 Ioannina, email: [email protected] email: [email protected] GREECE Gorm Harste Wsevolod Isajiw phone: 30-651-98632; Fax: 30-651- Dept of Political Science, Aarhus Dept. of Sociology, University of 42918; University, Aarhus, 8000 C, Toronto,203 College Street, Professor Shoji Kato DENMARK Toronto, Ontario M5T 1P9, CANADA Shin-machi 1-63, Tajimi-shi, Gifu- phone: 45-84421293; Fax: 45- phone: 1-416-9784783; Fax: 1-416- ken 507, JAPAN 86139839; email: [email protected] 9783963; phone: 81-572-223173; Fax: 81- Dr. Dieter Haselbach email: [email protected] 572-221476; Languages and European Studies Shoji Ishitsuka email: [email protected] Department, Aston University,Aston 704 Urban Palm Kashiwa, 3-11-27 Prof. Masanao Katsumata Triangle, Birmingham, B4 7ET, Kashiwa Kashiwa-shi, Chiba-ken College of Nursing, Nagoya City UNITED KINGDOM 277-0005 JAPAN University,Mizuho-ku, Nagoya, 467- email: [email protected] phone: 81-471-632652; Fax: 81-43- 0011, JAPAN Dr Johan Heilbron 23262601; email: phone: 81-52-8510446; Fax: 81-52- Prins Hendrikkade 165, NL 1011 [email protected] 8538057; TB Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS Gary Jaworski email: [email protected] Dr. Richard C. Helmes-Hayes Dept. of Social Sciences and Professor Mike F. Keen Dept. of Sociology, University of History, Fairleigh Dickinson Dept. of Sociology, Indiana Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario N2L University, Madison, NJ 07940, University South Bend,1700 3G1, CANADA USA Mishawaka Ave., South Bend, IN email: [email protected] phone: 1-973-4438732; Fax: 1-973- 46634-7111, USA 4438799; phone: 1-219-2374184; Fax: 1-219- Claudine Herzlich email: [email protected] 2374538; email: [email protected] CERMES,182 Blvd. de la Villette, F 75019 Paris, FRANCE Professor Hans Joas Thomas Kemple phone: 33-1-53728020; Fax: 33-1- John F. Kennedy Institut für Dept. of Anthropology and 53728049; Nordamerikastudien, Freie Sociology, University of British email: [email protected] Universität Berlin,Lansstr. 5-9, D- Columbia,6303 N.W. 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14 RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 Anna Larsson phone: 81-17-7641667; Fax: 81-17- 24765; Dept of History of Science and 7641544; email: [email protected] Ideas, Umeå universitet, S-901 87 Lejeune Mato Grosso Xavier Professor Dr. Hans-Peter Müller Umeå, SWEDEN Dept. CC Sociais e Geo-Historia, Center for European Studies, NYU phone: 46-90-7865459; Fax: 46-90- Universidad Metodista,Ave. King Juan Carlos I of Spain 143374; Francisco Glicirio 1249/91, Center,53 Washington Sq. South, email: [email protected] Campinas, SP 13012 - 000, BRAZIL New York, NY 10012, USA Professor Patricia Lengermann phone: 55-19-2338075; Fax: 55-19- phone: 1-212-9983717; Fax: 1-212- 613 Utica St., Ithaca, NY 14850, 6073098; 9954188; USA email: [email protected] email: [email protected] phone: 1-607-2777396; Dr Tim May Professor Birgitta Nedelmann email: [email protected] Dept of Sociology and Social Institut für Soziologie, Johannes Alissa Levine Policy, University of Durham,New Gutenberg-Universität 4114 rue St-Hubert, Montréal, Elvet, Elvet Riverside, Durham DH1 Mainz,Postfach 3980 Colonel- Québec H2L 4A8, CANADA 3JT, UNITED KINGDOM Kleinmann-Weg 2, D-55099 Mainz, phone: 1-514-5987266; email: [email protected] GERMANY email: [email protected] Prof. Lynn McDonald phone: 49-6163-395270; Fax: 49- Professor Donald N. Levine Dept. of Sociology, University of 6131-393728; email: nedelman Dept. of Sociology, University of Guelph, Guelph, ONT NIG 2W1, @pc-pool1.sowi.uni-mainz.de Chicago,1126 East 59th Street, CANADA Dr. Dénes Némedi Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA phone: 1-519-8244120; Fax: 1-519- Institute of Sociology, phone: 1-312-7027917; Fax: 1-312- 8379561; ELTE,P.O.Box 394, H 1446 7024849; email: [email protected] Budapest, HUNGARY email: [email protected] Ian Gordon McKay email: [email protected] Prof. Helena Znaniecka Lopata Dept of History, Queen’s University, David Nicholas 5815 N. 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16 RCHS – Newsletter, May 1999 Arpad Szakolczay phone: 32-16-323205; Fax: 32-16- Professor Gina Zabludovsky European University Institute,via 3223365; email: Cda. Monte Kamerun 42 Roccettin 9, I 50016 San Do- [email protected] Penthouse, Lomas de Chapulte- menico, ITALY Dr Anele Vosyliute pec, Mexico D.F. 11000, MEXICO Fax: 39-055-4685201; Lithuanian Institute of Philosophy phone: 52-5-207840; Fax: 52-5- email: [email protected] and Sociology, Saltoniskiy 58, 2600 2948633; email: Tetsuhiko Takai Vilnius, LITHUANIA [email protected] 3-34-7 Inokashira, Mitaka-shi, Fax: 370-2-751898; Ali Zaidi Tokyo 181, JAPAN email: [email protected] Dept of Sociology, University of email: [email protected] Prof Vera Vratusa-Zunjic Alberta,5-21 HM Tory Building, Zoltan Tarr Faculty of Philosophy, Cika Ljubina Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2H4, 134 West 93rd Street # 5B, New 18-20, YU 11000 Belgrade, CANADA York, N.Y. 10025, USA YUGOSLAVIA phone: 1-403-4392619; Fax: 1-403- email: [email protected] phone: 381-11-3282777; Fax: 381- 4927196; email: [email protected] Dr Gallina Tasheva 11-639356; Professor Hans L. Zetterberg Fakultät für Soziologie, Universität email: [email protected] Murarvägen 9b NB, S-16145 Bielefeld,Postfach 100131, D Peter Wagner Bromma, SWEDEN 33501 Bielefeld, GERMANY Department of Political and Social phone: 46-8-801106; Fax: 46-8- phone: 49-521-100273; Fax: 49- Sciences, European University 257081 521-1062988; email: Institute,via dei Roccettini 9, I- [email protected] 50016 San Domenico di Fiesole, bielefeld.de ITALY Professor Edward A. Tiryakian email: [email protected] Dept. of Sociology, Duke Sylvia T. Wargon University, Durham, NC 27708- Census and Demographic 0088, USA Statistics, Statistics Canada,4 B-1 phone: 1-919-6605632; Fax: 1-919- Jean Talon Building, Ottawa, ONT 6605923; K1A OT6, CANADA email: [email protected] phone: 1-613-9516989; Fax: 1-613- Dr Luigi Tomasi 9510686; Dipartimento di Teoria Storia e Prof Sasha Weitman Ricerca Sociale, Università di Dept. of Sociology-Anthropology, Trento,Via Verdi 26, I-38100 Tel-Aviv University, 69978 Tel-Aviv, Trento, ITALY ISRAEL phone: 39-461-881429; Fax: 39- email: sashaw@spirit. tau.ac.il 461-881449; Dr Frank Welz email: [email protected] Institut für Soziologie, Universität Professor Stephen P. Turner Freiburg,Rempartstrasse 15, D- Dept. of Philosophy, University of 79098 Freiburg, GERMANY South Florida,4202 East Fowler phone: 49-761-2033490; Fax: 49- Avenue CPR 107, Tampa, Florida 761-2033493; 33620-5550, USA email: [email protected] Dr Sam Whimster email: [email protected] 17 Malvern Rd., London, E8 3LP, Dr Karel Turza UNITED KINGDOM Narodnog fronta 17, YU 11000 Per Wisselgren Beograd, YUGOSLAVIA Dept of History of Science and Dr Frederic Vandenberghe Ideas, Umeå universitet, S-901 87 Dept of Human Sciences, Umeå, SWEDEN Uxbridge, Middx. UB8 3PH, UNITED phone: 46-90-7865456; Fax: 46-90- KINGDOM 165579; email: email: [email protected] [email protected] Dr Theresa Wobbe Mlle. Patricia Vannier Berlin Brandeburg Academy of Chemin de Pelleport Bét 8 Appt Science,Jaegerstrasse 22-23, D 119, F 31500 Toulouse, FRANCE 10117 Berlin, GERMANY phone: 33-6-81557787; phone: 49-30-20370608; Fax: 49- email: [email protected] 30-2037044; email: Dr Tony Varley [email protected] Dept. of Political Science and Professor Kurt H. Wolff Sociology, University College, 2300 Washington St Apt 226, Galway, IRELAND Newton, MA 02162-1456, USA Dr Augusto De Venanzi Prof Young-Jin Yang Department of Sociology, Central Dept. of Sociology, Dongguk University of Venezuela, Caracas, University, Seoul, 100-715, SOUTH VENEZUELA KOREA email: [email protected] phone: 82-2-2603261; Fax: 82-2- Professor Jozef C. Verhoeven 2603878; Dept. of Sociology, Catholic Lisa W.T. Yeung University of Leuven,E. Van Flat C 5/F, 65 Sing Woo Rd., Evenstraat 2C, B-3000 Leuven, Happy Valley, HONG KONG BELGIUM

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