The book's second part presents the thirteen sociocultural TetraSociological projects as possible responses to some of the XXIst century's challenges. We want to stress again that our project proposals are exploratory, tentative and hypothetical. They are summarized in very brief abstracts, to be submitted at sessions of the XVth WCS. Project "Tetraempirism" is to build the empirical basis for all the projects proposed, so it comes first. Four projects after it concern the social sphere, the next three, informational, and the following two, organizational and technical spheres respectively. Three last projects are not as global as the previous ones, but significant in their own way nonetheless. They are distinguished for their national or organizational specificity.
In 2001, the author made 32 abstracts for the WCS sessions and forwarded them to the sessions' chairpersons. Besides fulfilling the main function - to introduce sociocultural projects - the abstracts also serve other purposes. First, they are intended to give an idea of TetraSociology's scope, its ability to respond to many contemporary problems. Second, they are a kind of sociological test to fathom TetraSociology's acceptability for Western specialists, who are not aware of it: not a single publication on the subject has appeared in the West. The author was interested to learn how Western sociologists would treat a new theory, how many abstracts would be accepted, how many not accepted, how many would receive no response. Of 32 abstracts, 9 (28%) were ACCEPTED; 12 (37,5%), NOT ACCEPTED; 11 (34,5%) NO RESPONSE. This is an empirical fact. For an unknown theory, the initial approval rate of 28% is probably the quite good result, attesting to its substantiality. Certainly, forming an opinion about a new paradigm from brief (200-500 words) abstracts outlining fairly ambitious projects is not easy, which explains a big non-response rate. This also explains a high rejection rate. True, in some cases the reason for rejections lied not in the abstracts' content, but in the sessions' limited time-allotments, which cannot accommodate all those sending the abstracts. Understandably, the sessions' chairpersons' individual qualities account in a big part for the reactions to the abstracts: accepted, not accepted, no response. What has also important is that the abstracts' quality varies: some are better, some are worse. But overall the abstracts do give an idea of TetraSociology and its sociocultural projects.
The abstracts are listed with the title first, then the Research Committee's name and number, then the session's number and name, then the session's or committee's chairperson's name and country, then the chairperson's or committee's decision on the abstract: accepted, not accepted, no response.
- TetraSociology: Peace Jerusalem, the Lessons of the XXth Century
RC01 Armed Forces & Conflict Resolution
Session 5: World in New Millennium: the Lessons of the XXth Century
Chair: Proshanta Nandi, India. NOT ACCEPTED
- Tetra Format of Sociological Education: Innovative Experience
RC04 Sociology of Education
Session 8: Education and Society: the New Challenges
Secretary: Ari Antikainen, Finland. ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology: Hypothesis of TetraGamy as New Family Form
RC06 Family Research
Session 2: New family forms
Chair: Jan Trost, Sweden. ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology: Hypothesis of TetraGamy
RC07 Futures Research
Session 4: The social world of the XXIst century: the future of family and kinship culture
Chair: Lorne Tepperman, Canada. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology: Hypothesis of Pluratheism
RC07 Futures Research
Session 4: Religion in the social world of the 21st century: toward a world ethos
Chair: Rudolf J. Siebert, USA ACCEPTED
- Social Use of TetraSociology as Information Technology
RC14 Sociology of Communication, Knowledge & Culture
Session 10 Social uses of information and communication technology
RC14 President, Gaetan Tremblay, Canada ACCEPTED
- TetraSociological Theory: Universalism of Four-dimensional Continuum of Social Space - Time
RC16 Sociological Theory
Session 6: Can there be post-modern universalism?
Convenor: Jeffrey Alexander, USA. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology: New Philosophy of Social Space - Time
RC16 Sociological Theory
Session 10: New philosophies of social science
Convenor: Patrick Baert, UK NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociological Theory: for What, of What and for Whom?
RC16 Sociological Theory
Session 12: Theories for what, of what and for whom?
Convenor: Piotr Sztompka, Poland NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology as the Adequate Feminist Sociological Theory
RC16 Sociological Theory
Session 14: The feminist challenge to sociological theory.
Convenor: Sasha Roseneil, UK. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology: Sphere Quality of Classes and Democracy in the XX1st Century
RC18 Political Sociology
Session 4: The quality of democracy in the 21st century
Co-Chair: Eva Etzioni-Halevy, Israel. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology: Hypothesis of Pluratheism as Tolerance and Union of Religions
RC22 Sociology of Religion
Session 5: Religious tolerance and intolerance
Convenor: Ivan Varga, Canada. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology as Social Theory of Ecological Harmony
RC24 Environment & Society
Session 7: Social theory and the environment
Chair: Frederick H.Buttel, USA. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology: The Ecological Modernization and Harmony Through Social Modernization and Harmony
RC24 Environment & Society
Session 9: Ecological modernization: theory and practice
Chair: Frederick H.Buttel, USA. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology: Esperanto as the one Language of Technologies and Intercourse in the XX1st century
RC25 Sociolinguistics
Session 4: Language, technology and work
Chair: Max Travers, UK. ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology: Discovery of New Statistics
RC26 Sociotechnics, Sociological Practice
Session 6: Applying sociological knowledge: the challenges of sociotechnics and sociological practice
RC26 President: John Alexander, Canada ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology as the Adequate Feminist Sociological Theory
RC32 Women in Society
Session 5: Feminist sociological theory
Organizer: Eva Blay, Brazil. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology: Discovery of New Statistics - Revolution for Quantitative Sociology
RC33 Logic & Methodology in Sociology
Session 7: Qualitative (?) computing - a revolution for qualitative (?) sociology
Chair: Edith D. De Leeuw, Netherlands. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociological Statistics: Conversion of General Method in Tetraempiricism
RC33 Logic & Methodology in Sociology
Session 11: General Methods and Statistics
Chair: Edith D. De Leeuw, Netherlands. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology: Constructing and Using of Four-Dimensional Social Space - Time in the Analysis of Youth
RC34 Sociology of Youth
Session 5.9: Constructing and using of space, time and place.
Chair: Carmen Leccardi, Italy. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology: the Concept of Sphere Global Democracy
RC35 Committee on Conceptual & Terminological Analysis
Session 1: The concept of global democracy
Organizer: Henry Teune, USA. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology: the Concept of Four-Dimensional Social Space - Time as Four-Dimensional Concept of Society
RC35 Committee on Conceptual & Terminological Analysis
Session 3: The concept of society
Organizer: Martin Albrow, UK. ACCEPTED
- Russian Sphere Classes: Formation of New Actors
RC47 Social Classes & Social Movements
Session 2. The formation of new actors
President of RC47, Francois Dubet, France. ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology: Peace and Global Jerusalem
RC48 Social Movements, Collective Action and Social Change
Session 2. Political conflict, violence and social movements
Chair: Tamar Herman, Israel. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociological Modeling of Social World: Transition from Theory to Computer Technology.
RC51 Sociocybernetics
Session 4: Modeling the Social World by Using Computers
Session Organizer: Cor Van Dijkum, Netherlands. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology as New Paradigm of Understanding Society
RC51 Sociocybernetics
Session 5: New Paradigms for Understanding Society
Session Organizer: Vladimir Dimitrov, Australia. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology as World-System Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
RC51 Sociocybernetics
Session 9: World-Systems Analysis in the Twenty-First Century
Program Coordinator, Bernard Scott, UK. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology as the Answer on Childhood Challenge to Sociological Theory
RC53 Sociology of Childhood
Session 1: Childhood and sociological theory
Organizer: Robert van Krieken, NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociology: the Game Social Space-Time of Children
RC53 Sociology of Childhood
Session 7: Children in time and space
Organizer: Helga Zeiher, Germany. NOT ACCEPTED
- TetraSociological Statistics: New System of the Social Indicators
WG06 Social Indicators
Chair: Robert A.Cummins, Australia. ACCEPTED
- TetraSociology: Russian Sphere Classes - Formation of New Actors
Russian Speaking Forum
Session 2. Contemporary Russia as a process: where does it lead?
Chair: Nikita Pokrovsky, Russia. NO RESPONSE
- TetraSociological Statistics as the Means of Multi-Faceted Surveillance and Prevention of Terrorist Attacks in Information Societies
Ad Hoc Session on Surveillance in Information Societies
Chair: David Lyon, Canada. NOT ACCEPTED
From them only those abstracts are placed below, which express appropriate sociocultural projects. Other abstracts duplicating the theoretical contents of TetraSociology are not placed. All projects, except for two last, are global and long-term designed not for one decade. These projects, in spite of hypotheticness, create, from our point of view, new quality both empiricism and pragmatism of sociology open before it completely new applied horizons.