Eastern Europe in Transformation

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Eastern Europe in Transformation The Impact on Sociology

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Edited by Mike Forrest Keen and Janusz L. Mucha

ISBN: 0-313-28375-3

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-28375-8

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224 pages

Greenwood Press

Publication: 5/30/1994

List Price: $119.95 (UK Sterling Price: £70.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Sociology

Series Number: 109

Awards:

Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 1995

Reviews:

Examining the fate and role of sociology in formerly Communist nations in Eastern Europe, this pathbreaking book includes, but is not limited to, Russia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Yugoslavia, Slovenia, and Lithuania. The references are comprehensive and extremely helpful. The index is also very thorough. Highly recommended to both college and university libraries.
—Choice
...the esays on the Baltic region are outstanding.
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Journal of Baltic Studies

Description: Eastern Europe in Transformation examines the history of sociology in Eastern Europe during the period leading up to and including glasnost and perestroika. Taking advantage of the raising of the iron curtain, the volume editors have assembled 25 contributors from throughout the region to chronicle the impact these developments have had on sociology, as well as any contributions sociologists might have made to them. The result is a fascinating account of a discipline under siege, struggling to come to terms with its place in a changing social milieu. In addition, the work offers Western sociologists unprecedented access to the sociological research carried out in Eastern Europe during this period.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Eastern Europe and Its Sociology by Mike Forrest Keen and Janusz Mucha
The Metamorphoses of Russian Sociology by Gennady S. Batygin and Inna F. Deviatko
Dialectics of Systemic Constraint and Academic Freedom: Polish Sociology Under Socialist Regime by Wladyslaw Kwasniewicz
The Sociology of Reformist Socialism: The Hungarian Model by Attila Becskehazi and Tibor Kuczi
Sociology as Promise and Reality: The Bulgarian Experience by Nikolai Genov
Continuity and Discontinuity in Romanian Sociology by Stefan Costea
Ups and Downs in Czech Sociology by Eduard Urbanek
Sociology in Slovakia: Fiction or Reality by Jan Pasiak and Ladislav Machacek
East German Sociology: Between the Production of Weltanschauung, Ideological Adaptation, and Empirical Social Research by Dagmar Simon and Vera Sparschuh
The Development of Sociology as a Contested Science in Post-World War II Yugoslavia by Sergej Flere
Modern Slovenian Sociology by Maca Jogan
Sociology as a Mirror of Croatian Society by Josip Obradovic
Sociology of Science as the Science of Sociology in Ukraine by Viacheslav Kudin
Three Decades of Sociology in Latvia by Ilze Trapenciere, Maija Ashmane, and Janina Krutskih
Major Features in the Development of Lithuanian Sociology by Vladas Gaidys and Anele Vosyliute
Estonian Sociology: The Emergence of an Empirical Tradition by Ellu Saar, Mikk Titma, and Paul Kenkmann
Sociological Theories of Socialist Society by Bronislaw Misztal
References
Index

LC Card Number: 93-44515

LCC Class: HM47

Dewey Class: 301


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