William Outhwaite & Larry Ray 
Social Theory and Postcommunism [PDF ebook] 

Social Theory and Postcommunism undertakes a thorough study
of the implications of post-communism for sociological theory.
Written by two leading social theorists, the book discusses the
thesis that the fall of communism has decimated alternative
conceptions of social organizations other than capitalism.

* Analyzes the implications of the fall of communism on social
theory

* Discusses alternative ideas of social organizations other than
capitalism, in the wake of the collapse of communism

* Covers state/civil society, globalization, the future of
'modernity, ’ and post-socialism

Spis treści

Preface.

Introduction: Being Taken By Surprise.

1 Theory After the Fall.

2 Class: Marx and Weber.

3 Society, Solidarity and Anomie: Durkheim.

4 Three Types of Convergence.

5 Socialism, modernity and beyond.

6 Globalization and Convergence.

7 Civil Society East and West.

8 Modernity, memory and postcommunism.

9 Concluding Themes.

Index

O autorze

William Outhwaite is Professor of Sociology at the
University of Sussex. His recent publications include The
Sociology of Politics (co-edited with Luke Martell, 1998) and
The Blackwell Dictionary of Modern Social Thought (Blackwell
2002). He also acts as Associate Editor of the European Journal
of Social Theory.

Larry Ray is Professor of Sociology at the University of
Kent. He has recently published Theorizing Classical
Sociology (1999) and Key Contemporary Social Theorists
(co-edited with Anthony Elliott, Blackwell 2002). He has done
extensive work and research on the crisis and transformation of
postcommunist societies.