Social Change and Modernization

Lessons from Eastern Europe

Bruno Grancelli

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2011
• Print ISBN: 9783110144901
• eBook ISBN: 9783110884470
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Ciencias sociales
• Subtopic: Demografía

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Table of contents

• Introduction
• Who Should Learn What?
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Homo Sovieticus
• 3 Managers and Post-Socialist Enterprises
• 4 Elites, Citizens, Working People, and Institutional Reconstruction
• 5 Modernization: Projects and Processes
• 6 Social Change and Modernization: Lessons From and For Eastern Europe
• 7 Neo-Modernization Analysis: New Theoretical Challenges
• References
• Part One. The Actors of Change
• Contemporary Russian Society and its Soviet Legacy : The Problem of State-Dependent Workers
• 1 Soviet Society and the State-Dependent Worker
• 2 The Emergence of State Dependency as a Historical Process
• 3 State-Dependent Worker and the Basic Social Groups
• 4 State-dependent Workers and Social Mobilization in Soviet Society
• 5 Basic Modes of Crisis-Adaptation
• 6 State Populism in the Russian Republic
• References
• New Entrepreneurs: Continuity or Change in Russian Economy and Society?
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Modernization, the Russian Transition, and Entrepreneurs
• 3 Russian Entrepreneurs and their Contribution to Social Change
• 4 Conclusion
• References
• From the Communist Nomenklatura to Transformational Leadership: The Role of Management in the Post-communist Enterprises
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Role of Management in the Communist Enterprises: The legacy of the past
• 3 The Agents of Domestic Change
• 4 Cultural change with Foreign Participation
• 5 Local Managerial Skills
• References
• Modernizing Post-Soviet Management: A Comparative View
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Socialist Enterprise
• 3 Post-Socialist Organizations
• 4 Concluding Remarks
• References
• Strategies of Post-communist Transformations: Elites as Institution-Builders
• 1 Political Elites and Institutional Change
• 2 Market and Democracy
• 3 Communism and Civil Society
• 4 Society, and Elites in Transition
• 5 Elites as Institution Builders
• 6 Functional and Stratificational Perspectives on Elites
• 7 Design and Spontaneity
• 8 Strategies of Institution Building
• 9 Types of Political Elite
• 10 Systemic Obstacles to Post-communist Transformation
• 11 Types of Elites and the Quality of Transition
• References
• Part Two. Globalization, Retraditionalisation and Societal Modernisation
• Beyond Modernization: The Retraditionalisation of Ex- and Post-Yugoslavian Society
• 1 Introduction
• 2 A Contradictory Coalition and its Inherent Dilemmas
• 3 Re-bureaucratization and New/Old Liasons
• 4 On the Fringes of the Global System
• 5 Reperipherialization as Retraditionalisation
• 6 Memorandum for Modernity
• 7 The New Nationalism Anathema of Reason?
• References
• Participation at the Firm Level in the Transformation Process (Three blank slips of paper and a pigeon feather)
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Role of Participation in the Labour Relations System
• 3 The Forms and Dimensions of Participation
• 4 The Role and Importance of Participation in the Hungarian Labour Relations System
• 5 Changes in the Role and Place of Participation within the Labour Relations System since 1989
• 6 A Managerial Initiative Rejected
• 7 Combining ‘Voice’ and ‘Loyalty’
• 8 Changes Towards a Three-dimensional System of Participation
• References
• Polish Reforms: The Fine Art of Learning and Forgetting
• 1 How this Paper Began
• 2 Beauty and the Beast: The rise and fall of what used to be everybody’s favourite fairy tale
• 3 The Discreet Charm of Simple Choices
• 4 From Simple Choice to a Choice Matrix
• 5 Learning to Forget
• 6 The Crowded Boat
• 7 From Newtonian to Einsteinian Sociology
• 8 Hybrid Theories for Hybrid Systems
• References
• Theory, Specificity, Change: Emulation, Selective Incorporation and Modernization
• 1 Basic Considerations
• 2 Cross-Societal Emulation and Selective Incorporation
• 3 Other Conceptual and Analytical Problems
• 4 Modernization and Convergence
• 5 Globalization, Not Convergence
• 6 Comparative Dynamics and Modernization
• 7 Conclusion
• References
• Part Three. Social Change and Modernisation: Lessons for and from Eastern Europe
• Cultural and Civilizational Change: The Core of Post-communist Transition
• 1 In Search of Theoretical Resources
• 2 Cultural-civilizational Analysis
• 3 Three Heuristic Sources and their Tentative Applications
• 4 Conclusion
• References
• Modernization in a Millenarian Decade: Lessons for and from Eastern Europe
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Rethinking Modernization
• 3 Lessons for East Europe
• 4 Lessons from Eastern Europe
• References
• From Post-Communism to Post-Modernity? Economy and Society in Eastern European Transformations
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Changing Patterns of Modernization
• 3 The Negative Sociology of Analysis of Economic Reform
• 4 Bringing Sociology Back In
• 5 From Post-Communism to Post-Modernity?
• References
• Notes on Contributors
• Subject Index
• Name Index