Hans Joas, Ph.D. (1979) in Sociology, Free University of Berlin. Director of the Max Weber Center for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at the University of Erfurt and Professor of Sociology and Social Thought at the University of Chicago.Barbro Klein, Ph.D. (1970) in Folklore Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana. Professor Emerita of Ethnology, Stockholm University. Director Emerita and now Permanent Fellow of the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study (SCAS), Uppsala.

• Introduction, Hans Joas and Barbro KleinWhat are the Benefits of Broad Horizons?, Peter GärdenforsPART ONE: THE STATE AND THE POLITICALThe Reconstitution of the Realm of the Political as the Problematique of Modern Regimes, S.N. EisenstadtThe Strange Hybrid of the Early American State, Max EdlingPolicy Metrics under Scrutiny: The Legacy of New Public Management, Daniel Tarschys PART TWO: HISTORY AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCESHistory and the Social Sciences Today, Jürgen Kocka The Present Position and Prospects of Social and Political Theory, Dietrich RueschemeyerThe Contingency of Secularization: Reflections on the Problem of Secularization in the Work of Reinhart Koselleck, Hans JoasThe Missing Sentence: The Visual Arts and the Social Sciences in Mid-Nineteenth Century Paris, Wolf LepeniesPolitical Economy in A Historical Context: The Case of Malthus and Sweden, Lars MagnussonProfessionalism as Ideology, Rolf TorstendahlPART THREE: CIVILIZATIONAL STUDIES AND COMPARISONS OF CIVILIZATIONS Interpreting History and Understanding Civilizations, Johann P. ArnasonComparison without Hegemony, Sheldon PollockDevelopmental Patterns and Processes in Islamicate Civilization and the Impact of Modernization, Said ArjomandTowards a World Sociology of Modernity, Peter WagnerPART FOUR: CULTURAL AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS“The First Draft of History”: Notes on Events and Cultural Turbulence, Ulf HannerzCultural loss and Cultural Rescue: Lilli Zickerman, Ottilia Adelborg, and the Promises of the Swedish Homecraft Movement, Barbro KleinBuddhist connections between China and Ancient Cambodia: Srama a Mandra’s visit to Jiankang, Wang BangweiAutochtonous Chinese Conceptual History in a Jocular Narrative Key: The Emotional Engagement Qing, Christoph HarbsmeierOn the Contagiousness of Non-Contagious Behavior: The Case of Tax Avoidance and Tax Evasion, Peter Hedström and Rebeca IbarraPART FIVE: UNIVERSITIES AND THE DILEMMAS OF HIGHER EDUCATIONViews from the Acropolis and the Agora: Clark Kerr’s Industrial Society, Sheldon RothblattThe Growing Confusion Between ”Private” and ”Public” in American Higher Education, Neil SmelserThe Unintended Consequences of Quantitative Measures in the Management of Science, Peter Weingart The Compression of Research Time and the Temporalization of the Future, Helga NowotnyCODABetter to Be Than Not to Be?, Gustaf Arrhenius and Wlodek RabinowitzTabula GratulatoriaIndex