ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book develop the conceptual tool of 'paradoxical integration', is exercised throughout in the sense that negativity can be turned into positivity, that an unfavorable present situation can lead to favorable future prospects and problems can be transformed into solutions. It focused on Chinese concepts, for reasons that are indicated throughout. The book demonstrates that there is a possibility by showing the potential of selected Chinese concepts to reveal an intellectual competence and research capability that have general applicability and significance in the advancement of a more global social science. Recognizing the importance of advocating the possibility of extending Western theory through democratic inclusion of notions and concepts from non-Western sources, the book explores how an integration and reformulation of mainstream or Western theory can be achieved and how 'indigenous', in this case Chinese, concepts can be utilized in the development and transformation of social science.
