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Social theory and postcommunism

Presents a study of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory. This book discusses the thesis that the fall of communism has decimated alternative conceptions of social organizations other than capitalism. It also analyzes the implications of the fall of communism on social theory.
Print Book, English, 2005
Blackwell, Oxford, 2005
viii, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780631211112, 9780631211129, 063121111X, 0631211128
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Introduction : being taken by surprise
Theory after the fall
Class : Marx and Weber
Society, solidarity, and anomie : Durkheim
Three types of convergence
Socialism, modernity and beyond
Globalization and convergence
Civil society East and West
Modernity, memory, and postcommunism
Concluding themes