Preface ; The Importance of Being Marxist. Zygmunt Bauman: (Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds) ; Sociology?. Kurt H. Wolff: (Manuel Yellen Professor of Social Relations, Emeritus, at Brandeis) ; Sociology, Social Criticism and Marxism. Roy Edgley: (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex) ; How Did Mankind Acquire Its Essence? or The Paleolithic October Ernest Gellner: (Professor of Social Anthropology at Cambridge) ; Customs, Tradition, Legality: A Key Problem in the Dialectic of Base and Superstructure. Istvan Meszaros: (Professor of Philosophy at the University of Sussex) ; The Three Socialisms: Statism, Collectivism, Associationism. Stephen Yeo: (Teaches History at the University of Sussex) ; Late Capitalism, Corporatism and Other Isms. Ronald P. Dore: (is Reischauer Visiting Professor of Asian Studies and Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, and Director of the Japanese and Comparative Industrial Research Centre, Imperial College, London) ; Societies, Sociology and the International: Some Contributions and Questions, with Particular Reference to Total War. Christopher Thorne: (Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex) ; Retrieving Pluralism. Paul Q. Hirst: (Professor of Social Theory at Birkbeck College, University of London) ; Class Struggle From Above. Ralph Miliband: (Teaches in the Fall Semester at York University, Toronto) ; Social Classes, Social Movements or Social Tension?. Peter Lloyd: (Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex) ; Incorporation Versus Power Models of Working Class Radicalism: With Special Reference to North America. Robert J. Brym: (Professor of Sociology at the University of Toronto) ; The Rise and Fall of the French Labour Movement. Alain Touraine: (Professor at the Ecole Des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales where he is Director of the Centre d'Analyse et d'Intervention Sociologiques) ; Humour and Social Structure. Michael Mulkay: (Professor of Sociology at the University of York).