Machine derived contents note: CAROL HARRINGTON AND AYMAN SALEM -- Introduction 9 -- EDUARD KODUA -- Notes on the function of sociology 17 -- SALOME ASATIANI -- On one version of hegemonic strategy: -- a Gramscian insight into John Rawls's thought 23 -- AYMAN SALEM -- Aspects of Talcott Parsons's sociology 39 -- ATTILA MELEGH -- Floating East: Eastern Europe on the map of global -- institutional actors 63 -- CAROL HARRINGTON -- Prostitutes and peacekeepers in Bosnia-Herzegovina -- and Kosovo 95 -- IAGO KACHKACHIISHVILI -- Anthony Giddens's structuration theory and some -- peculiarities of Georgian society 121 -- TATIANA YARKOVA -- Applying the concepts of legitimacy and trust in Kyrgyzstan 129 -- DONNACHA 0 BEACHAIN -- Power without passion: the institutionalisation and -- de-radicalisation of political parties 141 -- IVAN CHORVAT -- Sociology between order and chaos 155 -- MARKUS MUELLER -- Can empirical research produce critical results? -- The case of urban sociology 167 -- BALIHAR SANGHERA -- After the cultural turn, a return to the moral economy 181 -- LYNNE ALICE -- Kosovo in transition: an insider-outsider doing social -- research on Kosovo's present and future 199 -- AYMAN SALEM -- Advertising First World culture: -- civic education in the former Communist bloc 225 -- INGRIDA GECIENE -- Democracy and the middle class: Western theoretical models -- in a post-Communist context 235 -- SARAH AMSLER -- 'From truth in strength to strength in truth': -- the reconstitution of power/knowledge in post-Soviet -- Central Asian sociology 257
Analysis
Critical sociology
Sociology
Notes
Based on the 2002 critical sociology conference held at Tbilisi State University in Georgia in June