VIII. Weltkongreß für Soziologie – Synkopen und Zwischen töne / VIIIth World Congress of Sociology - Sociology in Transition

Since at Varna, Bulgaria, the Vllth World Congress of Sociology had taken place, developments have set in in the discipline the final direction of which is difficult to be diagnosed. Newly closed at Toronto, Canada, the VHIth World Congress seems to suggest that contemporary sociology passes an intermediate phase. The present report reflects on the relations, given between american or west- and easteuropean as well as the „Third World’s“ sociology, accentuates the role and implications of the new „critical” sociology now firmly represented in the ISA, and outlines opening dimensions of sociological research programs

Historical sociology · Medical sociology · Social science · Sociology · Sociology of disaster · Sociology of the family · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · German Social Sciences and History · Sociology and Norbert Elias