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Title After communism : critical perspectives on society and sociology / Carol Harrington, Ayman Salem, Tamara Zurabishvili (eds.)
Published Oxford ; New York : Peter Lang, 2004

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Description 292 pages ; 23 cm
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Post-communism -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
Sociology -- Congresses.
SUBJECT Europe, Eastern -- Social conditions -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94005642 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Former Soviet republics http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92002682 -- Social conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008850 -- Congresses. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001533
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Author Harrington, Carol, 1965-
Salem, Ayman, 1971-
Zurabishvili, Tamara, 1975-
LC no. 2004057616
ISBN 3039101412 paperback
0820469513 US paperback