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Editor's Introduction: The Challenges Facing Contemporary Social Theory

As a reflexive activity whose structure bears traces and signs of the historical changes and transformations of society, contemporary social theory is grappling with the processing of pressing problems which have been accumulating during the past four to five decades. Since the unprecedented world-disclosing event of the dropping of the atom bomb in 1945 initiated the novel, disillusioning and transformative risk and global perspectives which started to take effect in the 1960s, a series of developments and concomitant alterations of conditions has been confronting social theory with serious challenges – external objective challenges which had to be reflexively translated into internal theoreticalmethodological challenges.