By William Outhwaite
Social conception and Postcommunism undertakes an intensive learn of the results of post-communism for sociological conception. Written via prime social theorists, the ebook discusses the thesis that the autumn of communism has decimated replacement conceptions of social organisations except capitalism.
- Analyzes the results of the autumn of communism on social idea
- Discusses substitute principles of social enterprises except capitalism, within the wake of the cave in of communism
- Covers state/civil society, globalization, the way forward for “modernity,” and post-socialism
Content:
Chapter 1 idea after the autumn (pages 7–24):
Chapter 2 classification: Marx and Weber (pages 25–41):
Chapter three Society, cohesion, and Anomie: Durkheim (pages 42–66):
Chapter four 3 different types of Convergence (pages 67–87):
Chapter five Socialism, Modernity and past (pages 88–116):
Chapter 6 Globalization and Convergence (pages 117–146):
Chapter 7 Civil Society East and West (pages 147–175):
Chapter eight Modernity, reminiscence, and Postcommunism (pages 176–196):
Chapter nine Concluding subject matters (pages 197–203):
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It seems that not only the beginnings of the market economy were based on the combination of competition, cooperation, political redistribution and status-regulated interconnections. Similar characteristics appear also in organized mature capitalism with symptoms of state capitalism. The characteristic feature of capitalism that emerges from communism is the parallel existence of the early forms (when market rules are not universal, but aimed at the maintaining of the privileged position of one particular set of actors from the old regime, and when personal interconnections are a substitute for the still nonexistent institutional market structure) and the presence of mature forms of organized capitalism.
It is indisputable that at the outset, the economic factor is rudimentary, while religious life is by contrast, luxuriant and all-pervading. (Durkheim 1976: 161) Durkheim wished to avoid claiming either that the economic factor was an epiphenomenon (since once it exists, it exerts influence) or that it is a substratum, since the malaise of European society does not originate only in industry (1976: 102). Durkheim’s explanation of social order lies in the ways in which the need for discipline (regulation) is balanced against the need for attachment to groups (attachment).
So postcommunism is not rendered redundant as a concept simply because the former communist nations have followed diverse paths of social development since 1989. ’’ This constitutes a radical departure from the emergent social processes of the previous two centuries. For most of the nineteenth century socialism developed as a diverse body of ideas and political movements that presented an alternative to capitalism and colonialism. During the first half of the twentieth century it was possible to imagine or indeed expect that capitalism would be superseded by socialism in some form or another – a possibility that Weber and, following him, Joseph Schumpeter noted with some dismay.
