Publications
ISA Regional Volumes 1996-1998
Social Knowledge: Heritage, Challenges, Perspectives
General Editor: Maria Luz Morán, University Complutense, Spain
While President of the ISA, Immanuel Wallerstein collaborated with national and other associations to organize ten regional conferences in preparation for the 14th World Congress of Sociology (1998). These volumes were intended to represent the state of social knowledge in each of the ten regions. They form part of a bold and ambitious scheme to map out the state of world sociology from a regional perspective.
The volumes are made available here on our website. Many years after their first publication they still provide an excellent foundation for further development and for the appreciation of the challenges facing different areas of the world. We hope they will inspire others to carry forward this project.
Terra Nostra: Pretexts for Lusophony
Challenges, Controversies and Languages for Sociology and the Social Sciences in the 21st Century
Editor: Ana Nunes de Almeida
- Introduction. Terra Nostra: Pretexts for Lusophony. Current and Future Challenges for Sociology and the Social Sciences
Ana Nunes de Almeida - A Matter of Relevance. A Set of Proposals for Comparative Social Research in the Portuguese Speaking Community
Manuel Villaverde Cabral - Why Is It So Difficult to Construct a Critical Theory?
Boaventura de Sousa Santos - Lusophone Societies and Social Facts - Problems and Challenges for the 21st Century
Carlos Cardoso - Sociology in Portugal. Formation and Social Trends
José Madureira Pinto - Democratic Combinatories: Peripheral Legacy
Wanderley Guilherme dos Santos - Social Science in Mozambique: Current Perspectives and the Outlook for the Future
Ana Maria Loforte - Sociology: Some Current Problems
Joao Ferreira de Almeida - Lusophony in the Field of World Knowledge. A Defence of Diversity
Augusto Santos Silva - Lusohpony and the Field of World Knowledge
Otávio Velho
Proceedings of the ISA Regional Conference for the Lusophone World
Lisboa, Portugal, November 1997
Questions from Arab Societies
Editors: Abdelkader Zghal and Ahmed Iadh Ouederni
- Introduction. Les enjeux politiques et épistémologiques de la réactivation et de la circulation transsociétale et transculturelle du concept de société civile
Abdelkader Zghal and Ahmed Iadh Ouederni - Réflexions autour d’une expérience collective
Ali El Kenz - Knowledge in the Arab Countries : The Case of Egypt
Ahmed A. Zayed - The State of Arab Sociology as Seen by an Arab Sociologist
Abubaker A. Bagader - Social Research About Palestinians in Israel: History, Challenges and Prospects
Azi Haider
Proceedings of the ISA Arab Regional Conference
Hammamet, Tunisia, 16-18 May 1997
Sociology in East Asia and Its Struggle for Creativity
Editor: Su-Hoon Lee
- Introduction. Sociology from an East Asian Perspectivy
Su-Hoon Lee - Institutionalization of Sociology in Korea
Myoung Kyu Park - Institutionalization of Sociology in Japan
Shoji Kokichi - Institutionalization of Sociology in China
Ma Rong - Issues of the Institutionalization of Sociology in Taiwan
Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao - Toward Culturally "Independent" Social Science: The Issue of Indigenization in East Asia
Kim Kyong-Dong - Western Theory, East Asian Realities and the Social
Syed Farid Alatas - Sociology in Korea and Gender Issues
Chin Sung Chung - Women in Chinese Economic Development
Aiguo Lu - Learning from Odd Cases: A Hong Kong Perspective
Tai Lok Lui - The Confucian Tradition of Civil Society as a Rich Terrain for Sociological Discourse
Hein Cho - Why Do We Need a Reflexive Sociology in East Asia?
Sang-Jin Han
Proceedings of the ISA Conference for Eastern Asia
Seoul, Korea, November 22-23, 1996
Building Open Society and Perspectives of Sociology in East-Central Europe
Editor: Piotr Sztompka
Introduction
- The Lessons of 1989 for Sociological Theory
Piotr Sztompka
Part I Theorizing Post-Communism
- 1989 and After: Meanings, Explanations, Lessons
Göran Therborn - Transition as a Topic for Sociological Analysis
Jacques Coenen-Huther - Post-Transitology or Is There Any Life After Transition?
Mira Marody
Part II Applying Certain Theories
- Sociology on Trial: The Challenge of Transformation Risks
Nikolai Genov - Social Systems Without Indigenous Features? A Contribution to Neo-Modernization Theory
Mojca Novak - Theories of Transition: Is There Any Room for Rational Choice Theory?
Bruno Grancelli - Becoming of Political Sociology In Russia: The First Steps
Elena Zdravomyslova
Part III The Focus on Culture
- Nationalism and Collective Interests: Pitfalls of the Citizenship Development After the Collapse of Communism
Grazyna Skapska - Transformations of Public Sphere and Changing Role of the Media in Post-Communist Society
Marju Lauristin - Democracy and Public Opinion Research: The Lessons of the Polish Transformation
Antoni Sulek
Part IV The Focus on Space
- Territorial Decentralization: A Stumbling Block of Democratic In East Central Europe?
Michal Illner - What's After the Nation State? An Attempt at Sociological Prophecy?
Hieronim Kubiak
Proceedings of the ISA Conference for East Central Europe
Krakow, Poland, September 14-18, 1996
From a Doll's House to the Welfare State: Reflections on Nordic Sociology
Margareta Bertilsson, Göran Therborn
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Millennial Milestone. The Heritage and Future of Sociology in the North American Region
Editor: Janet L. Abu-Lughod
View PDF- Introduction. The Heritage and Future of Sociology
Janet L. Abu-Lughod - Observations on Bureaucratic Capitalism: Knowledge about What and Why
Gideon Sjoberg - Consciousness, Meaning, and Ruling Relations: From Women's Standpoint
Dorothy E. Smith - The Future of U.S. Society in an Era of Racism, Group Segregation, and Demographic Revolution
Joe R. Feagin - Erosion of the Nation-State and Transformation of National Identities
Gilles Bourque and Jules Duchastel - Cracked Casings: Notes Towards an Analytics for Studying Transnational Processes
By Saskia Sassen - The Privatization of Community: From Public Groups to Unbounded Networks?
Barry Wellman
Proceedings of the ISA Conference for North America
Toronto, Canada, August 7-8, 1997
Sociology in South Asia Heritage and Challenges
Editors: Partha Nath Mukherji, Jacop Aikara, Chandan Sengupta
View PDF- Introduction
- Nation-State Reformulated: Interrogating Received Wisdom
Partha Nath Mukherji - Pseudo-Modernization and its Impact on the Process of Nation-building in Sri Lanka
S.T. Hettige - Institution Building in South Asia: Dilemmas and Experience
T. K. Oommen - Political Parties and Societal Values
Satish Saberwal - Gender and Inequality in Sri Lankan Society: A Sociological Perspective
S. R. de S. Jayatilaka - NGO Failure and the Need to Bring Back the State
S. Akbar Zaidi - The Challenges of Development and the Role of the Social Scientist
M. Asaduzzaman
Proceedings of the ISA Conference for South Asia
Mumbai, India, March 25-27, 1997
Gathering Voices. Perspectives on the Social Sciences in Southern Africa
Editors: Teresa Cruz María e Silva, Ari Sitas
View PDF- Introduction
Southern African Social Science in the Late 20th Century
Teresa Cruz María e Silva and Ari Sitas
Section One: The Social Sciences in Southern Africa
- Globalisation, Social Science and Development. A Mauritanian Perspective
Sheila Bunwaree - Social Science in Southern Africa: A Refelction on the Role of Sociology in Youth and Development
Pembelani Mufune - Sociology and Social Research in South Africa
Charles Crothers - The Social Sciences in Mozambique. Some Theoretical and Institutional Questions
Alexandrino José
Section Two: Southern Africa in Transition
- "The Glowing Fire of our Patriotism". The Constitutional Court, Civil Society and Constitutional Patriotism in South Africa
Elsa van Huyssteen - Commissions of Inquiry and Policy-Making in South Africa. Between the "Grand Tradition" and Democratic Corporatism
Eddie Webster and Sakhela Bulungu - Jettisoning Justice. The Case of Amnesty in South Africa
Fred Hendricks
Section Three: Women and Gender Equity
- Women's Empowerment and Organisation in Mozambique
Isabella Casimiro - Possibilities for Redistribution. Rural Women in South Africa Today
Shamim Meer
Section Four: Afrocentrism or Afropessimism
- Feminist Methodology and Research Among Rural African Women in the Transkei
Nhlanhla Jordan - A Disenchanted Modernity. The Accomodation of African Medicine in Contemporary South Africa
Thokozani Xaba - Beyond Afropessimism. Identity and Development in a Globalising World
Ari Sitas
Proceedings of the ISA Conference for Southern Africa
Durban, South Africa, July, 1996
- Introduction
Caglar Keyder - Modernity: A Non-European Conceptualization
Nicos Mouzelis - Crossing Boundaries in the Study of Southern Europe
Nükhet Sirman - Multiculturalism and Social Transformation: the Israeli Case
Eliezer Ben-Rafael - International Migrations in Southern Europe (Italy and Portugal): Theoretical Approaches and Methods of Inquiry
Fortunata Piselli - On Linkages between Urbanism and Urban Restructuring in Mediterranean Europe
Lila Leontidou - Party, Politics and Culture in the Sienese Countryside: The Roots of Italian Communism
Luciano Li Causi - Some Reflections on Sociology and the Condition of Being a Sociologist in Present-day Turkey
Ayse Oncu
Proceedings of the ISA Conference for Southern Europe
Istanbul, June 20-21, 1997