Abstract
The author calls attention to the need to contemplate systematic spatial comparisons and to embrace an explicit commitment to the analysis of processes with greater determination. In her view, the option for recontextualizing disembodied social players may contribute to a sharper picture of the present day malaise, and hopefully also elicit new interpretations or explanations. She envisages an enlarged role for sociologists as an international community of scholars based upon investigations that incorporate an awareness of the historical transformations of the very concepts in use. As she puts it, to take into account changes in sociologys conceptual universe is, in itself, a way to re-embody time, to reintroduce history into the self-reflexive transformation in process.
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