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(Originally published in the International Social Science Journal, 1973, 25, 1/2.) Introduces a set of essays that present intellectual profiles of leading social scientists. Contributors were chosen to represent all of the social sciences as practiced internationally & to span across at least two generations of scholarship. Though written in a variety of styles & approaches, it is suggested that, together, contributions reveal the structure of professional social science careers to be peculiarly sensitive to political currents, but also subject to university fads. Moreover, although contributors are specialists, they strain to reach across disciplinary boundaries to establish a common base of knowledge with other disciplines. A key aspect of this interdisciplinarity is the ability of many of these social scientists to travel to different countries & establish new networks of relationships. Concentration on intellectual profiles in this 25th anniversary issue is intended as a bow to the creative talents of the individuals who make the International Social Science Journal possible. D. Ryfe

After identifying three phases in the internationalization of the social sciences since the 1860s (the middle phase regressive), major agents in the current phase are described. The characteristics & advantages of intergovernmental programs & reasons for the establishment of the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) program are discussed, & the three substantive research themes of MOST outlined, along with its structure, financing, & prospects. 2 Photographs, 2 Appendixes. Adapted from the source document.

Examines how the end of the Cold war confrontation has set the stage for an enhanced role for intergovernmental organizations, making an overhaul of the International Civil Service (ICS) urgent. The legacy of the first-generation ICS is briefly reviewed & the transfer of this model to the second-generation ICS, now a body of around 100,000 functionaries at 7 main duty stations, is described. Internal rifts & external images of the ICS are discussed & attention is directed at the democratic deficit & the identity deficit of international civil servants. The challenges of field operations & the temptations of regionalism are explored. Fresh opportunities are discussed for a transition to a third-generation ICS to rationalize the prevailing ramshackle, accretive structures of the second generation & meet pragmatic world needs. 3 Photographs. AA

(For abstract of Part I see SA 38:3/90V7027.) It is argued that empirical social science research should be used to monitor world sociospheric conditions, & an agenda for the world sociosphere similar to that being designed for the biosphere should be formulated. The current state of the empirical cognitive base underlying reallocative mixed market economies, restructuring state capitalist economies, & periphery economies is described, but it is cautioned that the world sociosphere cannot be understood as a sum of its parts, & that empiricism has limits. Ideas are advanced for improving & extending scientific capacities & professional structures to meet the current challenge of rapid social transformation. It is concluded that interpretation & analyses of empirical evidence may release the creative potential of the social sciences. V. Wagener