The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies : : The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology - Volume 9 /

The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies : : The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology - Volume 9 / / edited by Grażyna Skąpska, Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, Krzysztof Kowalski.

Neither the title of the 35th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, nor its timing and location were coincidental - The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies being discussed in 2001 in Poland, a country which had experienced two totalitarianisms in the previous century. The events o...

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Superior document:Annals of the International Institute of Sociology ; 9
:
Institut international de sociologie. World Congress
TeilnehmendeR:
Skąpska, Grażyna,
Kowalski, Krzysztof,
Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria,
Place / Publishing House:Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2003.
Year of Publication:2003
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Annals of the International Institute of Sociology ; 9.
Physical Description:1 online resource (389 p.)
Notes:"Proceedings of the 35th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, held in July 2001 in Kraków, Poland"--P. .
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Table of Contents:
  • Preface, Grażyna Skąpska
  • SECTION ONE: THE MORAL FABRIC IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES: TWO PERSPECTIVES
  • Morality in Contemporary Society, Masamichi Sasaki
  • Morality in Contemporary Social Theory, Grażyna Skąpska
  • SECTION TWO: TRUST IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES
  • Trust: A Cultural Resource, Piotr Sztompka
  • Some Observations on Problems of Trust in Modern Societies, Shmuel Eisenstadt
  • SECTION THREE: PROMISES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS: EASTERN EUROPE AFTER COMMUNISM SEEN FROM SYDNEY AND PRAGUE
  • Parables of Hope and Disappointment, Martin Krygier
  • Everyday Democracy in the Czech Republic: Disappointments or New Morals in a Time of Neo-Normalization, Jirina Siklova
  • SECTION FOUR: DIVIDED WORLD - FACES OF INEQUALITIES
  • Dimensions and Processes of Global Inequalities, Göran Therborn
  • Postsocialist Transformations and Various Faces of Inequalities in the Divided World,
  • Pavel Machonin
  • SECTION FIVE: COPING WITH CORRUPTION
  • Is a Sociology of Corruption Possible?, Jacek Kurczewski
  • The Paths of Italian Corruption, Vincenzo Ferrari
  • Trust-Mistrust in European Democracies, Mattei Dogan
  • SECTION SIX:THE MORAL SENSE OF MODERNIZATION
  • The Moral Dimensions and Tensions of Modernity, Shmuel Eisenstadt
  • Varieties and Transcendence of Modernity, Björn Wittrock
  • Modernity, Tradition and the Shi`ite Reformation in Contemporary Iran?, Said Amir Arjomand
  • Literature and the Moral Imagination of Modernity, Sudipta Kaviraj
  • SECTION SEVEN: TERROR, GENOCIDE, AND VIOLENCE
  • The De-Civilizing Process, Eliezer Ben Rafael
  • "Women, children, older people": Genocide, Warfare, and the Functional Differentiation of Society, Klaus Dammann
  • Society as a "Morality-Silencing" Force: Primo Levi, Existential Power, and the Concentration Camp, Nigel Rapport
  • Answers to Atrocities, Nils Christie
  • AFTERWORD
  • The Moral Fabric: Diverse Textures in the Postmodern World, Krzysztof Kowalski& Annamaria Orla-Bukowska
  • List of Editors and Contributors.

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