1. Societies, Corporations, and the Nation State; 2. Values in a Polytheistic World; 3. Freedom vs. Control in Post-Modern Society: A Relational Approach; 4. The Universality of Freedom and Control; 5. The Contemporary Scene -- Multiple Modernities; 6. Communitarianism and the Privatization of Belief: The Case of U.S. Catholics; 7. Beyond Sovereignty: De-Facto Transnationalism in Immigration Policy; 8. Transition to Democracy and Nation-State in Eastern Europe; 9. National Identity, Social Order and Political System in Western Europe: Primordial Autochthony
Summary
Issues covered in this volume include: freedom of societies; the privatisation of belief; ethnicity, and globalisation; East-West relations; and instititional rehabilitation
Notes
"Selection of papers from the 1997 Cologne conference of the International Institute of Sociology"--Jacket