Intellectuals, Inequalities and Transitions

Prospects for a Critical Sociology
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-36036-5
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 156, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 356 g

Reihe: Studies in Critical Social Sciences

This volume is devoted to the central themes in Iván Szelényi’s sociological oeuvre comprising of empirical explorations and their theoretical refinement in the last 50 years. The contributors have been asked to take interpretive and critical stances on his work, and to clarify the relevance of his insights. Iván Szelényi has been asked to write a concluding chapter, and respond to the present reflections on his work. The ensuing volume discusses Szelényi’s captivating scholarship as being grounded in a complex program for the political economy of socialisms and post-socialist capitalisms, and introduces him as a neoclassical sociologist whose research projects continue to investigate inequalities created by the interaction of markets and redistributive structures in various societies.

Contributors include: Dorothee Bohle, Tamás Demeter, Gil Eyal, Béla Greskovits, Michael D. Kennedy, Tamás Kolosi, Karmo Kroos, Victor Nee, David Ost, Iván Szelényi, and Bruce Western.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Demeter, Tamás

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgement

List of Figures and Tables

Notes on Contributors

1 Futures Present: On the Concepts of “Intellectuals” and “Intelligentsia” in Iván Szelényi’s Oeuvre

Gil Eyal

2 Normative Frames and Systemic Imperatives: Gouldner, Szelényi and New Class Fracture

Michael D. Kennedy

3 New Class Theory as Sociology of Knowledge

Tamás Demeter

4 How to become a Dominant or Even Iconic Central and East European Sociologist

Karmo Kroos

5 Inequality and Transitions: Human Frailty in a Sample of Prisoners

Bruce Western

6 Neoclassical Sociology Meets Polanyian Political Economy

Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits

7 Mechanisms of Institutional Change

Victor Nee

8 Transitions and Structural Distortions

Tamás Kolosi

9 The Ouvrierist Szelényi and the Missing Sociology of Labor

David Ost

10 Replies and Comments

Iván Szelényi

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Tamás Demeter is "Lendület" Research Group Leader at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and Professor at the Sociology Department of the University of Pécs. He has held various fellowships in Cambridge, MPIWG Berlin, IASH Edinburgh, and NIAS Wassenaar. He has published widely on the sociological tradition of Hungarian philosophy, and on early modern philosophy including its sociological context. He is the author of David Hume and the Culture of Scottish Newtonianism (Brill, 2016), and co-editor of Conflicting Values of Inquiry (Brill, 2015).