Semnalare de carte:
Social Sciences in the ”Other Europe” since 1945
Short description:
In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. This volume brings in the perspective of the “other Europe.” It contributes a series of observations, on and from the margins of the field, which reflect on the condition of knowledge and research on what is perceived and thematized as the (semi-)periphery by the observers themselves. Rather than simply attempting to shift focus, the chapters explore scientific visions of the social off-center. They span the years from the immediate postwar period to the present, and the European semi-peripheries from Tartu to Portugal, with the majority of studies covering East Central Europe. In its chronology, the volume follows, but often challenges, existing accounts of postwar social science: part one engages with Sovietization and the profound transformation of most social science and humanities disciplines in the postwar period up to the 1950s; the second part covers the spectacular rise and domination of sociology among 1960s social sciences; the intensification of transnational exchanges up to the 1980s is the topic of the third part; and the crisis and reorganization of the social sciences in the late-socialist period and the post-socialist years of transition are analyzed in the fourth and final section of the volume.
Edited by ADELA HÎNCU and VICTOR KARADY
Pasts, Inc., Central European University, Budapest, 2018
Published in 2018 by Pasts, Inc., Center for Historical Studies, Central European University
1051 Budapest, Nador utca 9.
www.pasts.ceu.edu
Table of Contents
Adela Hîncu
Introduction: “Peripheral Observations” and Their Observers
PART ONE: Misalignments: Modernization, Sovietization, and De-Stalinization
Agata Zysiak
Postwar Modernization and the University for the Working Classes in Poland
Zoltán Ginelli
Critical Remarks on the “Sovietization” of Hungarian Human Geography
Anna Birkás
Party Historiography: A Scientific Experiment in Hungary around 1956
Zoltán Rostás
The Rehabilitation of Romanian Sociology after Stalinism
Eva Laiferová
Continuities and Ruptures: Sociology in Slovakia after the Second World War
PART TWO: Sociology in the Long 1960s and the 1970s
Matthias Duller
Yugoslav Sociology: Political Autonomy under a Single-Party Regime
Jarosław Kilias
An Older Brother: Polish and Czechoslovak Sociology in the 1960s
Adela Hîncu
“A Common Front?”: Social Structure Research in 1970s Socialist Romania
Bruno Monteiro
Heteronomy, Institutionalization, and Modes of Legitimation in Portuguese Sociology under the Estado Novo Regime (1957–1974)
PART THREE: Transnational Encounters and Collaboration into the 1980s
Eszter Berényi
International Influences in the Hungarian Sociological Profession, 1972–1994
László Gergely Szücs
Limits and Revisions of the Marxist Canon: Western Philosophy in the Hungarian Philosophical Review, 1957–1980
Jan Levchenko
Resort on the Outskirts: Towards the Premises of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School
Corina Doboş
Beyond Ideologies: Eastern European Demographic Expertise across the Iron Curtain
Bogdan Iacob
Balkans Re-Enchanted: Regionalism in Times of Detente
PART FOUR: Realignments: Late Socialism, Post-Socialism, and Beyond
Ágnes Gagyi
Reform Economics in Late-Socialist Hungary: A Case of Globally Embedded Knowledge Production
Aliki Angelidou
New and Old Controversies in Southeast European Epistemics: Socio-Cultural Anthropology in Post–Cold War Bulgaria
Emese Cselényi
Internationalization and Publication Activity in Hungarian Political Science
Zsuzsanna Hanna Biró
An East-West Comparison of Educational Sociology
Kinga Pétervári
Legal Professionals in the Legislative Process in Hungary: The Basic Law
of 2011 and the Civil Code of 2013
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Series editors
Constantin Iordachi
Balazs Trencsenyi
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