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The Order of Social Sciences: Sociology in Dialogue with Neighbouring Disciplines

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Comparing sociology with economics, psychology, or history shows that borderlines between disciplines have become fluent and always newly oscillating. Economists, especially prominent positions awarded with Nobel prizes, are increasingly discussing items as motivation, rationality, norms, or culture which belong to the domain of sociology. Sociology should acknowledge this kind of “imperialism” and claim own competencies.

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Bögenhold, D. (2021). The Order of Social Sciences: Sociology in Dialogue with Neighbouring Disciplines. In: Neglected Links in Economics and Society. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79193-3_6

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