1. Sociology of Solidarity in Turbulent Times: Central Debates in an Openly Normative Field • Muhammad Amasha, Yale University.

2. Meaning as Cause: Critical Realism, Ubuntu, and Theorizing from the Global South • Matthew Coetzee, University of Notre Dame.

3. Ida B. Wells and the Civic Repertoire: Canonization through Justice-Oriented Historical Sociology • Samuel Stabler, Hunter College, CUNY; Shai Dromi, Harvard University.

4. The Dual Connotations of Li Jiao: Conceptual Conflation and Historical Evolution since the New Culture Movement. • Ruiyi Tang, Xi'an Jiaotong University.

5. Words, Worlds, and Conceptual Travel: Emic and Etic as Tools for Theory-Work in Cultural and Historical Sociology. • Giovanni Zampieri, University of Padova.