Social theory and research has long faced the limitations of its conventional Eurocentric focus. The essays in this volume offer new thoughts and empirical studies for transcending those limitations. A continuation of PPST s previous volume on Postcolonial Sociology, this volume, Decentering Social Theory, questions old categories, advances new postcolonial themes in social science, and debates alternative theoretical paradigms. The Scholarly Controversies section contains a critical exchange on Southern Theory between Raewyn Connell and Patricia Hill Collins, Mustafa Emirbayer, Raka Ray and Isaac Ariail Reed.