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See for example Francis Fukyamas neo-Hegelian meditation The End of History and the
Last Man (New York:Avon, 1993) and Samuel P. Huntingtons controversial The Clash of
Civilization and the Remaking of World Order(New York: Touchstone, 1998). Both books
have sparked much debate. For many in the human sciences, these worries have taken on
fresh urgency in the wake of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. See Craig
Calhoun, Paul Price
and Ashley Timmer, eds. Understanding September 11 (New York: New Press, 2002).
2 The stubborn persistence of modernization theory in demography and family sociology
is critically discussed in Arland Thorntons 2001 Presidential Address to the
Population Association of America (Thornton 2001: 449-465).
Ian Roxboroughs Modernization Theory Revisited: A Review Article finds
modernization theory to be alive and Social Theory, Modernity, and the Three Waves of
Historical Sociology
Julia Adams, Elisabeth Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff [forthcoming as the Introduction to
Julia Adams, Elisabeth Clemens and Ann Shola Orloff, eds.Remaking Modernity: Politics,
History and Sociology, Duke University Press, 2004]
We shall set to work and meet the demands of the day, in human relations as well
as in our vocation. This, however, is plain and simple, if each finds and obeys the
demon who holds the fibers of his very life. (Max Weber 1958: 156)
Discontinuity is freedom. (Harold Bloom 1997: 39)