Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- 1 The Project -- 2 The Contributions -- 2.1 Part I: Is There a European Sociology? -- 2.2 Part II: Some National Traditions -- 2.3 Part III: Two Views from Afar -- References -- Part I: Is there a European Sociology? -- European Sociology: The Identity Lost? -- 1 On the Identity of European Sociology in the Classical Age -- 2 Classical European Sociology: A Multidimensional Programme -- 3 Has European Sociology Preserved its Identity? -- References -- The Contribution of German Social Theory to European Sociology -- 1 US Hegemony after the Second World War: The Americanisation of European Social Theory -- 2 The Revitalisation of European Social Theory -- 2.1 British Social Theory: Class, Solidarity, and Conflict -- 2.2 French Social Theory: The Power of Structure -- 3 German Social Theory: The Dialectics of Modernity -- 3.1 Kant, Hegel, and Marx -- 3.2 Simmel and Weber -- 3.3 Critical Theory: Horkheimer, Adorno, and Habermas -- 3.4 Systems' Theory: Luhmann -- 3.5 The Critical Turn of Systems' Theory -- 3.6 The Iron Cage of Systems' Theory: Is there any Escape? -- 4 The Dialectics of Progress: The Good and the Dangerous Life in Modern Society -- 5 Between Interrelated Diversity and Anglo-American Cultural Imperialism -- References -- Towards a European Sociology -- 1 Has there Ever Been a European Sociology? -- 2 Sociology and Modernity -- 3 Sociology in Modern Times -- 4 Present Trends -- 5 Tracing the Future of Sociology in its History -- References -- Part II: Some National Traditions -- The Changing British Role in European Sociology -- 1 Britain versus Europe or Sociology as a Foreign Agent -- 2 The Anglo-European Rapprochement in Sociology -- 3 Universalism and the Two Continents -- 4 The New European Sociology -- References -- A Marginal Discipline in the Making: Austrian Sociology in a European Context.

1 Early Cosmopolitanism without an Institutional Basis: From the Beginnings to the Second World War -- 2 The Advantages of Non-professionalism: Austrian Social Sciences in the Interwar Period -- 3 Emergent Professionalisation after 1945: Turning the Inward Look Outward? -- 4 What then Does Austrian Sociology Have to Offer? -- References -- Scandinavian Sociology and its European Roots and Elements -- 1 The European Roots I: Concrete Social Research -- 2 The European Roots II: Ethnology and Social Anthropology -- 3 The European Roots III: The Logical Positivism of the 1920s and 1930s -- 4 The Institutionalisation of Sociology after the Second World War -- 5 The Postwar Sociology up to 1970 -- 6 Paradigmatic Changes -- 7 An Increase of Nationally Independent and Salient Contributions -- References -- Social Change and Research on Social Structure in Hungary -- 1 Sociology and the Evolution of Civil Society Before Socialism -- 2 Sociology, State Socialism, and Subsequent Attempts to Reconstitute Civil Society -- 2.1 The Stalinist Social Order: Sociology as Bourgeois Pseudoscience -- 2.2 The Post-Stalinist Quest for New Legitimacy: The Quest for Sociology as an Independent Discipline -- 3 The Study of Social Structure -- 3.1 From Class to Stratification (From Cooperation to Conflicts between Sociologists and Reform-communists) -- 4 Reform, Social Change, and Research on Social Structure -- 5 Sociology and the Transition to Post-communism -- References -- Between Universal and Native: The Case of Polish Sociology -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transformations in Polish Society in the Twentieth Century -- 3 Stages in the Development of Sociology in Poland -- 4 The Changing Social Roles of Sociologists -- 5 Towards World Sociology -- 6 In the Service of Society -- 7 Conclusions -- References -- Part III: Two Views From Afar.

European Sociology and the Modernisation of Japan -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Early Modernisation in Japan -- 3 European Sociology of the First Generation and Japan -- 3.1 John Stuart Mill and Herbert Spencer -- 3.2 Saint-Simon and Auguste Comte -- 3.3 Lorenz von Stein and Karl Marx in Japan -- 4 European Sociology of the Second Generation and Japan -- 4.1 The Influence of Emile Durkheim in Japan -- 4.2 Georg Simmel and Max Weber in Japan -- 5 Early American Sociology in Japan -- 6 European Sociology of the Present Generation and Japan -- 6.1 The Americanisation of Postwar Japanese Sociology -- 6.2 Talcott Parsons and Japan -- 7 From Karl Mannheim's Theory of Ideology to Bell's End of Ideology -- 8 Summary and Conclusion: From One-way to Two-way Communication -- References -- Europe and America in Search of Sociology : Reflections on a Partnership -- 1 Interrelation Between American and European Sociology in the Period of Formation -- 2 The Partnership in the Modern Era -- 3 Future of Sociology After the European Revolutions -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index of Names.