"With two exceptions (the papers by Milos Kalab and Andras Hegedus) the contributions were published in the autumn 1967 (34:3) issue of Social research."

Bibliographical footnotes.

Modern times, modern Marxism, by Z. Bauman.--Sociology, Marxism, reality, by J. J. Wiatr.--The Marxist school of sociology: what is sociology in a Marxist sense? By O. Mandic.--The specificity of the Marxist conception of sociology, by M. Kalab.--Contemporary Marxist sociology, by E. Hahn.--The structure of Marxist sociology, by L. Zivkovic.--The division of labor and the social structure of socialism, by A. Hegedus.--The concept of alienation in modern sociology, by I. S. Kon.--Roles, masks, and characters; a contribution to Marx's idea of the social role, by E. Urbanek.--George H. Mead and Luigi Pirandello; some parallels between the theoretical and artistic presentation of the social role concept, by B. Baumann.