Breakthroughs, fashions and continuity in developing sociological knowledge - The global shift and its consequences for Sociology - About the Post-Industrial Society - The social role of knowledge - Role-Set Theory and Modernity: Transforming experience - Contributions of Rational Choice Theory to modern Sociology: An Overview - Social indicators and quality of life research: Background, achievements and current trends - Social Capital as an useful scientific metaphor - Social Cohesion and related concepts - Reconceptualizing modes of belonging: Advancements in the sociology of ethnicity and multiculturalism - Conceptualizing ethnicity: In search of cognitive innovations - Fifty years of urban sociology - Poverty production: A different approach to Poverty Understanding - Feminist Sociology: Past and present challenges - Sociology and Industrial Democracy