附註:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Modernity and social movements / Ron Eyerman -- Two interpretations of contemporary social change / Alain Touraine -- Dialectics of modernity : reenchantment and dedifferentiation as counterprocesses / Edward A. Tiryakian -- Modernity and ascription / Hans Haferkamp -- Employment, class, and mobility : a critique of liberal and Marxist theories of long-term change / John H. Goldthorpe -- Social change in the United States : the system of equality and inequality / Richard Münch -- Durkheim's problem and differentiation theory today / Jeffrey C. Alexander -- The infrastructure of modernity : indirect social relationships, information technology, and social integration / Craig Calhoun -- The future of capitalism / Johannes Berger.
Cultural change and sociological theory / Robert Wuthnow -- The direction of evolution / Niklas Luhmann -- The temporalization of social order : some theoretical remarks on the change in "change" / Bernard Giesen -- Contradictions and social evolution : a theory of the social evolution of modernity / Klaus Eder -- World society versus niche societies : paradoxes of unidirectional evolution / Karl Otto Hondrich -- External and internal factors in theories of social change / Neil J. Smelser -- Globality, global culture, and images of world order / Roland Robertson -- A reappraisal of theories of social change and modernization / S.N. Eisenstadt.