CONTRIBUTORS Kyong-Dong Kim Kyong-Dong Kim, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University, Member of the National

CONTRIBUTORS

Kyong-Dong Kim Kyong-Dong Kim, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Seoul National University, Member of the National Academy of Sciences, Korea, and Adjunct Professor of the Asia-Pacific Studies Institute of Duke University, is currently Visiting Professor of the KDI (Korea Development Institute) School of Public Policy and Management. He holds a B.A. from Seoul National University, M.A. from the University of Michigan, and a PhD from Cornell University, all in sociology. He taught at North Carolina State at Raleigh, Duke University, and l’Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He was a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C., and the East-West Center of Hawaii. He served as Director of the Institute of Social Sciences and Dean of Planning and Coordination of Seoul National University. He was President of the Korean Sociological Association and is Chairman of the Board of the Korean Association for Information Society. He has published 40 volumes of scholarly books, as sole author, co-author, editor or co-editor, and translator, including half a dozen in English and more than 290 articles and chapters overseas and at home, with over 70 in English and other international languages, and has also published two volumes of poetry in Korean. He has partici- pated in numerous international conferences presenting papers and/or moderating sessions. His research has covered such areas as social change, development and modernization, industrial relations, education, occupation, aging, sociological theory and methodology.

Hyun-Chin Lim Hyun-Chin Lim is Dean of College of Social Sciences, Seoul National University where he is Professor of Sociology. He is also Adjunct Professor, Asian-Paci c Studies Institute at Duke University. He received his B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Seoul National University, and his PhD in Sociology from Harvard University. He taught and did research at the Korea Military Academy, Harvard University, the University of Chicago, the University of California at 210 contributors

San Diego, and Duke University. He was previously the director of the Institute of Social Development and Policy Research at Seoul National University, worked as an editorial writer for Hankook Daily, and served as a consultant for the World Bank. He also served as the president of the Nara Association for National Policy, and was the co-founder and president of the Korean Association for NGO Studies. He is currently the president of the Korean Sociological Association. He has presented papers at many professional conferences, given public lectures on crucial development issues, and has been involved extensively in activities pertaining to NGOs in Korea. His publications include more than 30 books and over 150 scholarly articles on dependency, development, democracy, and civil society in East Asia and Latin America.

Syed Farid Alatas Syed Farid Alatas is an Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology, National University of Singapore where he has been since 1992. A Malaysian national, he had his schooling in Singapore and obtained his PhD in Sociology from Johns Hopkins University in 1991. He lectured at the University of Malaya in the Department of Southeast Asian Studies prior to his appointment in Singapore. While in Malaysia he was involved in trade research in Iran and Turkey for the Malay Chamber of Commerce, Johor. In 2001 he was a Heritage and Social Science consultant for the Urban Design Concept of Kampong Gelam, engaged by Hijas Kasturi Associates Sdn, Kuala Lumpur. He was also in 2002 hired to undertake a review of the Agenda 21 implementation in Malaysia, focusing on Chapters 3 & 31 (poverty eradication, and science and technology), engaged by the Malaysian NGO Forum for Rio + 10, Kuala Lumpur. His book Democracy and Authoritarianism: The Rise of the Post-Colonial State in Indonesia and Malaysia is published by Macmillan (1997). His recent articles include “The Study of the Social Sciences in Developing Societies: Towards an Adequate Conceptualization of Relevance”, Current Sociology 49(2), 2001: 1–19; (with Vineeta Sinha) “Teaching Classical Sociological Theory in Singapore: The Context of Eurocentrism”, Teaching Sociology 29(3), 2001: 316–331; “Islam, Ilmu-Ilmu Sosial dan Masyarakat Sipil”, Antropologi Indonesia 25(66), 2001: 13–22; and “Eurocentrism and the Role of the Human Sciences in the Dialogue Among Civilizations”, The European Legacy 7(6), 2002: 759–770. He is currently working on a second book in the area of the philosophy and sociology of social science and on another project on Muslim ideologies and utopias.