Table of Contents

Foreword - Margaret S Archer
Introduction - Martin Albrow
TOWARDS A UNIVERSAL SOCIAL SCIENCE
Resisting the Revival of Relativism - Margaret S Archer
Sociology as the Defetishisation of Modernity - Agnes Heller
Conceptual Frameworks in Comparative Inquiry - Divergent or Convergent? - Piotr Sztompka
INTERNATIONALISING SOCIOLOGY
Sociology′s Great Leap Forward - Edward A Tiryakian
The Challenge of Internationalisation
The Application of Participatory-Action Research in Latin America - Orlando Fals Borda
CREATING INDIGENOUS SOCIOLOGIES
Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African Oral Poetry - Akinsola A Akiwowo
Asuwada Principle - M Akin Makinde
An Analysis of Akiwowo′s Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African Perspective
Towards an African Sociological Tradition - O B Lawuyi and Olufemi Taiwo
A Rejoinder to Akiwowo and Makinde
ONE WORLD SOCIETY
Societal Development, or Development of the World-System? - Immanuel Wallerstein
Rent-Seeking or Dependency as Explanations of Why Poor People Stay Poor - Erich Weede
An Operational Analysis of the Phenomenon of the Other Underdevelopment in the Arab World and in the Third World - Mahmoud Dhaouadi
Occidental Reason, Orientalism, Islamic Fundamentalism - Mona Abaza and Georg Stauth
A Critique
RLD MOVEMENTS
The Green Movement - Johan Galtung
A Socio-Historical Exploraton
The Peace Movement - Artur Meier
Some Questions Concerning its Social Nature and Structure
Social Movements and Social Change in Self-Creative Socety - Zsuzsa Hegedus
New Civil Initiatives in the International Arena

Reviews

`The republication of fifteen papers from International Sociology is to be welcomed not least because it is a testimonial to Albrow′s adept editorship of that journal′ - @Contemporary Sociology