From Intercivilizational Encounters to Intercivilizational Analysis

Ino Rossi is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of Saint John's University, NYC, where he served as a chair of the department and a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Doctor of Arts in Modern World History. He has a Master in Sociology from the University of Chicago and a PhD in Anthropology-Sociology from the New School for Social Research, New York. His publishing career began with four edited books: Cultural Anthropology: Anthropology Full Circle ; People in Culture: A Survey of Cultural Anthropology, and two interpretive critiques and elaborations of Claude Levi-Strauss's structuralism: The Unconscious in Culture: Levi-Strauss' Structuralism in Perspective , and The Logic of Culture: Refinements of Structural Theory and Method . Then, he went on to propose a structuralist-dialectic approach in sociology with an authored volume: From the Sociology of Symbols to the Sociology of Signs: Toward a Dialectical Sociology, and an edited one: Structural Sociology: Theoretical Essays and Substantive Analyses (with the contributions of T. Parsons, S. Eisenstadt, M. Godelier, C. Lemert, A. Stinchombe among others). He applied the structuralist-dialectic approach in disaster studies under an NSF grant with an authored book ( Community Reconstruction after an Earthquake: Dialectical Sociology in Action ). The study of reconstruction and developmental issues led him to the field of globalization, first with an edited book on its theoretical and methodological foundations ( Frontiers of Globalization Research , Springer) and with another more recent one offering a systematic documentation of the input of globalization on the Global North and Global South as well as a new approach on possible inter-civilizational understanding and dialogue ( Challenges of Globalization and Prospects for an Inter-civilizational World Order , Springer). He is the editor of Springer's series "Emerging Globalities and Civilizational Perspectives".