This article introduces brief statements from a set of presidential panels held at the 2020 meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, held in Philadelphia February 27-March 1. The panels were dedicated to honor a group of five prominent figures from our collective past and explore their contributions to the discipline.

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特别部分：社会学过去的遗产介绍

本文介绍了在 2 月 27 日至 3 月 1 日在费城举行的东方社会学会 2020 年会议上举行的一系列主席小组的简短声明。这些小组旨在表彰我们过去集体中的五位杰出人物，并探讨学科的贡献。