Abstract
This paper tries to point out the significance of the 18th World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama. This congress will become the great opportunity for the construction of the East Asia sociology, which will lead a challenge to global sociology in the 21st century.
This paper points out the theoretical limitation of European and American sociology towards the studies on the social changes in the process of modernization in Eastern Asian, as well as these limitations appears in the studies towards the phenomenon in the societies rushing into post-modern directly in the near future. Accordingly the 18th World Congress of Sociology in Yokohama has a great significance for the theoretical innovation to the East Asian sociology.
