| No 23
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Variants of the Transformation Process in Central Europe. A Comparative Assessment |
| Institution |
Institute of Sociology; University of Erlangen-Nurnberg: D-81054 Federal Republic of Germany |
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Publication (Journal) |
Zeitschrift fur Soziologie 23 no. 3 (June 1994) 198-221 |
| Published in |
Germany, 1994 |
| Language |
English |
| Abstract |
The effects of market and political pluralization at the structural and personal levels in Hungary, Poland, the Czech and Slovak Republics, and former East Germany are explored in an attempt to determine whether the transformation processes in post-socialist countries provide an example of ongoing modernization in the Parsonian sense. Ongoing modernization supposes that the collapse of postsocialist social systems provides opportunities rather than problems. However, the processes of transformation among former Eastern bloc countries have most often led to social and ethnic exclusion, disintegration, and particularization, thus challenging the Parsonian thesis. |
| Discipline(s) |
social theory
, political sociology
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| Source(s) |
survey
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