Publications

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

Millennial Milestone. The Heritage and Future of Sociology in the North American Region

Editor: Janet L. Abu-Lughod

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

Tradition in Modernity Southern Europe in Question

Editors: Caglar Keyder

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• 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