But social reactions, whether in the USA, Canada, Japan or in Southeast Asia took place with completely different cultural reagents.

[2] After the 1947–48 school year, he went back to Jerusalem to be an assistant lecturer in Martin Buber's department under whom he had written his master's thesis.

As a social scientist, "Eisenstadt has focused on the interplay between cultural and structural processes of change and on inherent tensions and antinomies rather than on uniform process of development"[3] Eisenstadt researched broad themes of social change, modernities and civilizations.

[5] The contributions of this book were written by Eisenstadt's former students and colleagues at the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The articles relate to Eisenstadt's major themes in the study of cultures, modernization, and social and political change.