Totalitarian experience and knowledge production : : sociology in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-1989 / / by Svetla Koleva ; translated by Vladimir Vladov.
Totalitarian Experience and Knowledge Production examines, in a comparative perspective, sociology as practiced in six European Communist countries marked by various forms of totalitarianism in the period 1945-1989. In contrast to normative sociology’s view that such coexistence is essentially impos...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2018] |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English Russian |
| Series: | Post-Western Social Sciences and Global Knowledge
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xvii, 298 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter
- Copyright Page
- Epigraphs
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Methodological Notes
- Following the Traces of the Past: The Methodological Pitfalls of Time
- The Object of Sociology vs. Sociology as an Object of Research: The Theoretical Pitfalls of the Conception of Totalitarianism
- Sociology Grappling With Itself: The Conceptual Pitfalls of the Single-variant Disciplinary Self-referentiality
- Conceptual Framework of the Analysis
- Institutional Cycles of Sociology in Central and Eastern Europe, 1945–1989
- From Historical Chronology to Institutional Cyclicity
- Institutional Reanimation of Sociology: 1944–1948/49
- Institutional Mimicry i: 1948/49–1956
- Institutional Expansion i: 1956–1968
- Institutional Mimicry ii: 1968–1980
- Institutional Expansion ii: 1980–1989
- Institutional Cycles: General Conclusion
- Disciplinary Construction of Sociology: Processes and Modalities
- A New Context, a New Object of Research: What Kind of Sociology?
- From a New Deontological to a New Epistemological Model of Social Science Cognition
- Multifaceted Sociology: Modalities of Knowledge Production
- Summing-up. Production of Scientific Knowledge about the ‘Socialist Society’: Surmounting the Paradoxes
- Conclusion: “A Legacy Without a Testament”
- Back Matter
- Appendix
- Bibliography.