Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social Sciences at the Crossroads: Introduction / Björn Wittrock and Shalini Randeria -- Forms of Being -- What Can We Learn from Insect Societies? / Raghavendra Gadagkar -- What Does it Mean to Be Human? Who Has the Last Word: Sociologists, Biologists, or Philosophers? / Alan Ryan -- What Is It to Be Human? A Unified Model Suggests History Will Have the Last Word / Christina Toren -- Forms of Theorizing -- Sociological Individualism / Peter Hedström -- Norms as Social Facts / Steven Lukes -- Forms of Believing -- Political Secularity in India before Modern Secularism. A Tentative Overview / Rajeev Bhargava -- Violence Affirmed: V.D. Savarkar and the Fear of Non-violence in Hindu Nationalist Thought / Jyotirmaya Sharma -- The Future of Christianity / Hans Joas -- Rethinking Democracy in Its Global Contexts -- From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism / Shmuel N. Eisenstadt -- Democracy for the 21st Century: Research Challenges / Gustaf Arrhenius -- Democracy Disrupted. The Global Politics of Protest / Ivan Krastev -- Rethinking Disciplinary Divides -- Embracing Uncertainty / Helga Nowotny -- Rethinking Biomedicine / Vinh-Kim Nguyen -- Manifesto for the Social Sciences / Craig Calhoun and Michel Wieviorka -- Rethinking the University -- The Modern University in Its Contexts. Historical Transformations and Contemporary Reorientations / Björn Wittrock -- The University in the Twenty-First Century: Teaching the New Enlightenment at the Dawn of the Digital Age / Yehuda Elkana.

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