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This issue gathers together papers that examine the boundaries between various fields of social inquiry. Some of the papers explore the meaning of the term "boundary," while others consider the basis for the carving up of the totality called "Society" into parts that then become academic disciplines. One group of papers examines the historical constitution of selected disciplinary boundaries, while others ponder the implications of these boundaries today. In an era of professed enthusiasm for interdisciplinary research, should the frontiers of some disciplines be remapped? What are the rationales for separating the study of society from the study of politics, the study of economics from the study of society, and so forth? Arien Mack
Andrew Abbott is professor of sociology and Master, Social Sciences Collegiate Division at the University of Chicago. His most recent book is The System of Professions (1988).
Charles Camic is professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is currently studying historical changes in the conceptual vocabularies by which social thinkers have viewed the human individual, concentrating especially on the language of character. He is completing his book, The Cosmopolitan Local: Talcott Parsons, the Making of an American Social Theorist.
Susan Gal is professor of anthropology at the University of Chicago. She has recently co-edited a special issue of the Journal of Pragmatism on "Constructing Languages in Public" (1995).
Robert Heilbroner is Norman Thomas Professor of Economics Emeritus in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. His most recent book is The Crisis of Vision in Modern Economic Thought (1995), with William Milberg.
Judith T. Irvine is professor of anthropology at Brandeis University. She is editor of Responsibility and Evidence in Oral Discourse (1993).
Allan Pred is professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His most recent book is Recognizing European Modernities: A Montage of the Present (1995).
James Schmidt is Chair of the Department of Political Science at Boston University. He most recently edited What is Enlightenment? Eighteenth Century Answers and Twentieth Century Questions (1996).
George W. Stocking, Jr. is the Stein-Freiber Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and the Conceptual Foundations of Science. He is the author of The Ethnographer's Magic and Other Essays in the Histoiy of Anthropology (1992).
Immanuel Wallerstein is the director of the Fernand Braudel Center at SUNY Binghamton. He is author of Unthinking Social Science (1991) and has most recently published After Liberalism (1995).
Harrison C. White is the Giddings Professor of Sociology and the Director of the Center for the Social Sciences at Columbia University. His most recent books are Identity and Control (1992) and Creativity and Careers (1993).
Eviatar Zerubavel is professor of sociology at Rutgers University. His Terra Cognita: The Mental Discovery of America was published in 1992.
