Rethinking the Social : Sociology of Crisis Experience in Central and Eastern Europe /

Rethinking the Social : Sociology of Crisis Experience in Central and Eastern Europe /

The book casts a spotlight on Central and Eastern European societies, making their experiences visible and meaningful within the postcolonial discourse. The modernization theory overlooks important aspects of postsocialist transformation. Consequently, sociological knowledge has drifted apart from t...

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Other Authors: Gadowska, Kaja (Editor), Giza, Anna (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2025.

Series: Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 297.

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Post-communism > Europe, Central.
Europe, Central > Social conditions > 1989-.
Europe, Eastern > Social conditions > 1989-.

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Call Number: HN373.5

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Table of Contents:
  • List of Figures
  • Notes on Contributors
  • 1 Postpandemic Futures: Sociology of Crisis Experience in Central and Eastern Europe
  • Anna Giza and Kaja Gadowska
  • Part 1
  • The Social Crisis as a Crisis of Social Sciences
  • 2 Sociology and the Alienation of Knowledge
  • Anna Giza
  • 3 Sociology and Social Change: Polish Researchers and the Transformation
  • Izabella Bukraba-Rylska
  • 4 Postcolonial Parallels, Global Entanglements, and Practices of Decolonization: Varieties of Postcolonial Discourses on Poland
  • Joanna Wawrzyniak and Małgorzata Głowacka-Grajper
  • 5 The Absent Bourgeoisie: Implications of the Relative Weakness of the Polish Economic Elite in the Long Twentieth Century
  • Tomasz Zarycki
  • Part 2
  • Staying Close to Social Experience
  • 6 Industry 4.0 as a Sociotechnical Imaginary Experienced from Below: The Case of Small and Medium Industrial Enterprises in Poland
  • Renata Włoch
  • 7 Multiculturalism and Multilingualism in Smaller 'Cities of Immigration and Emigration': Płock, Kalisz and Piła, 2019-2022
  • Anne White
  • 8 The covid-19 Pandemic as a Source of Workplace Innovation: The Worker Perspective
  • Adam Mrozowicki and Jacek Burski
  • 9 Social Life in an Era of Growing Uncertainty
  • Mirosława Marody
  • Part 3
  • In Search of a New Perspective
  • 10 Law in the Anthropocene Era
  • Marek Zirk-Sadowski
  • 11 Knowledge in the Face of Populism
  • Michał Kaczmarczyk
  • 12 Democracy and Authoritarianism in the Twenty-First Century
  • Grzegorz Ekiert
  • 13 On the Influence of Sociology on Society and on the Sociologist
  • Krzysztof T. Konecki
  • Index.