Seven years passed

Abstract

In this case, the contract as editor has ended. It is time for change. Therefore, it is also a good opportunity to jot down some ideas. Everyone knows that only at the end is the result known, that only at the end of the game do we know what the score was. If only the goals count, that is the most important part. But we also know that the end, the result, does not justify the means. The path, the process, the means also have their value. And in a parallel approach, only when the road has been travelled is it feasible to look back and describe the route. Before it was possible to anticipate and imagine how it could be. In that difference, in that hiatus between before and after, the seeds of what always overflows and transcends us are sown. We are, as humans, as individuals, small. The recent COVID-19 pandemic has shown us this. To the extent that we participate in shared projects, to the extent that we build with others, we can weave common stories capable of overcoming the limits of the present and of circumstances. Current Sociology Monographs (CSM) is one of those places where some of the publications1 of the International Sociological Association (ISA) are deposited. There remain recorded different contributions for the future with which a part of contemporary sociological knowledge is constructed.