TY - JOUR AU - Wagar, W. Warren PY - 1996/08/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - TOWARD A PRAXIS OF WORLD INTEGRATION JF - Journal of World-Systems Research JA - JWSR VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Global Politics and the Future of the World-System DO - 10.5195/jwsr.1996.67 UR - http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/jwsr/article/view/67 SP - 36-48 AB - The theme of the 90th annual meeting of theAmerican Sociological Association is "Community of Communities: Shaping Our Future." The program asks three leading questions: must the plurality of community ties now identifying themselves throughout the world along ethnic, racial, gender, religious, and other lines ... be blended away to ensure civility? Or, can we have a society of vying tribes without shared bonds and values? Or can there be a shared frameworkin which many colorful elements find a new place ... [in] a "community of communities?" ER -