FROM THE EDITOR
International Sociology into the New Millennium: The Global Sociological Community and the Challenge to the Periphery
FUYUKI KURASAWA
The Ethnological Counter-Current in Sociology
HEINZ-DIETER MEYER
Taste Formation in Pluralistic Societies: The Role of Rhetoric's and Institutions
VALENTINE M. MOGHADAM
Transnational Feminist Networks: Collective Action in an Era of Globalization
XIAOWEI ZANG
Intercorporate Ties in Singapore
PAULO J. KRISCHKE
Problems in the Study of Democratization in Latin America: Regime Analysis vs Cultural Studies
BOOK REVIEWS
Kazimierz M. Slomczynski et al., Mental Adjustment to the Post-Communist System in Poland and Bogdan W. Mach, Transformacja ustrowa a mentalne dziedzictwo socjalizmu; Henryk Domanski, Na progu konwergencji; A. Adedeji and O. Otite (eds), Nigeria: Renewal from the Roots?

GLOBALIZATIONS ARE PLURAL
GUEST EDITOR: GÖRAN THERBORN
GÖRAN THERBORN
Introduction: From the Universal to the Global
OVERVIEW
GÖRAN THERBORN
Globalizations: Dimensions, Historical Waves, Regional Effects, Normative Governance
CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
JENS BARTELSON
Three Concepts of Globalization
HISTORICAL TRAJECTORIES
PAUL BAIROCH
The Constituent Economic Principles of Globalization in Historical Perspective: Myths and Realities
ANIBAL QUIJANO
Coloniality of Power and Eurocentrism in Latin America
SYSTEMIC FUNCTIONING AND PERSPECTIVES
JOHN W. MEYER
Globalization: Sources and Effects on National States and Societies
IMMANUEL WALLERSTEIN
Globalization or the Age of Transition? A Long-Term View of the Trajectory of the World System.
REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
HENRY WAI-CHUNG YEUNG
Economic Globalization, Crisis and the Emergence of Chinese Businesses Communities in Southeast Asia
GARY HAMILTON, ROBERT FEENSTRA, WONGI CHOE, CHUNG KU KIM AND EUN MIE LIN
Neither States nor Markets: The Role of Economic Organization in Asian Development
ASA CRISTINA LAURELL
Structural Adjustment and the Globalization of Social Policy in Latin America
GLOCALITIES
BANU HELVACIOGLU
Globalization in the Neighborhood: From the Nation-State to Bilkent Center
DANIEL MATO
Transnational Networking and the Social Production of Representations of Identities by Indigenous Peoples' Organizations of Latin America
MAMADOU DIAWARA
Globalization, Development Politics and Local Knowledge
QUESTIONS OF GOVERNANCE
SASKIA SASSEN
Territory and Territoriality in the Global Economy
DAVID HELD
Regulating Globalization? The Reinvention of Politics
BOOKS REVIEWS
Linda Tuhiawi Smith, Decolonising  Methodolgies: Research and Indigenous Peoples
Reviewed by Charles Crothers
Michael Minkenberg, Die neue radikale Rechte im Vergleich: USA, Frankreich, Deutschland
Reviewed by ThomasGrumke
John J. Macionis and Ken Plummer, Sociology: A Global Introduction
Reviewed by Galina Saganenko

BAI GAO
Globalization and Ideology: The Competing Images of Contemporary Japanese Economic System in the 1990s
BORIS HOLZER
Miracle with a System: the Economic Rise of East Asia and the Role of Social-Cultural Patterns
VALERY YAKBOVICH AND IRINA KOZINA
The Changing Significance of Ties:  An Exploration of the Hiring Channels in the Russian Transitional Labor Market.
ROLF HACKENBROCH AND JUERGEN GERHARDS
First Names and Cultural Modernization: An Empirical Study
ANTONIO MUTTI
Particularism and the Modernization Process in Modern Italy
ASEF BAYAT
From "Dangerous Classes" to "Quiet Rebels": Politics of Urban Subaltern in the Global South

ANTONIO MUTTI
Particularism and the Modernization Process in Southern Italy
SYMPOSIUM: RELIGION AND RACE IN LATIN AMERICA
Guest Editors: Roberto J. Blancarte & Roberto Motta
ROBERTO J. BLANCARTE
Popular Religion, Catholicism and Socio-Religious Dissent In Latin America: Facing the Modernity Paradigm
ARI PEDRO ORO & PABLO SEMAN
Pentecostalism the Southern Cone Countries: Overview and  Studies
ANTONIO FLAVIO PIERUCCI AND REGINALDO PRANDI
Religious Diversity in Brazil: Numbers and Perspectives in a Sociological Evaluation
REGINALDO PRANDI
African Gods in Contemporary Brazil: A Sociological Introduction to Candomblé Today
ROBERTO MOTTA
Paradigms in the Study of Race Relations in Brazil