Preface; List of Permissions; 1. Introduction: Comparative Studies and Sociological Theory -- From Comparative Studies to Civilizational Analysis: Autobiographical Notes; 2. The Civilizational Dimension in Sociological Analysis; 3. Social division of labor, construction of centers and institutional dynamics: A reassessment of the structural-evolutionary perspective; 4. Cultural Programs, the Construction of Collective Identities and the Continual Reconstruction of Primordiality; 5. Some Observations on the Dynamics of Traditions
