Introduction: An Institutional History of Sociology in the Czech Republic -- 1: Sociology in Service to Nation-Building: The Legacy of Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk -- 2: A False Beginning? The Growth and Destruction of Czech Sociology 1918-1950 -- 3: 1950-1969: Becoming a Counsellor to the Socialist Prince -- 4: 1969-1989: The Long Hour of Party Ideologists -- 5: The 1990s: Reconstruction and the T…
1. Introduction: Caste Studies and the Apocryphal Elephant; Martin Farek, Dunkin Jalki, Sufiya Pathan andPrakash Shah -- 2. Caste-Based Reservation and Social Justice in India ; S.N. Balagangadhara -- 3. Are there Caste Atrocities in India? What the Data Can and Cannot Tell Us; Dunkin Jalki and Sufiya Pathan -- 4. Dissimulating on Caste in British Law; Prakash Shah -- 5. Were Shramana and Bhakt…
On Norbert Elias: Becoming a Human Scientist – Prologue -- A long Life Has its Advantages – or: The Late Career of a Book -- On the Plan of this Academic Work -- In Front of the Mirror -- Childhood, Youth, Maturation -- Old Heidelberg, You Delicate -- The First Appearance at the Zurich ‘Soziologentag’ -- The End in Frankfurt -- The Great Book -- Hoping and Waiting.The book focuses on th…
1: Myths and Histories of Italian Sociology -- 2: The Post-War Period: ‘Inventing’ Sociology in Italy -- 3: The Hubs of Newborn Sociology -- 4: The Dream of Institutionalization -- 5: A Fascinating and Precarious Project: Sociology in Trento -- 6: After ’68: A New Generation of Sociologists -- 7: Entrenchment and the Emergence of New Structures -- 8: Routinization and Globalization: the 1…
1. The Issei: In Search for Autonomy -- 2. Religious and Social Communities: The Importance of Ethnic Solidary -- 3. The Nisei Experience -- 4. World War II -- 5. Rebuilding Social and Religious Communities: The Aftermath of the War.This book studies the Japanese-American coffee farmers in Kona, Hawaii. Specifically, it sheds light on the role of first and second generation immigrants in the em…
Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: After The Turn, 1990-91 -- Part II: Quarter Century Later Follow-up, 2014 -- Part III: Sociological Interpretations -- Epilogue.This book discusses the reunification of Germany and the negative impacts that this had on East German intellectuals. The book is an ethnographic account of how the intellectuals of East Germany reacted to the demise of their nation, …
1. Introduction -- 2. Collective Recollections: Approaches to Memory in Sociology -- 3. Our Town–Our School–My Research -- 4. Narrating Recollections -- 5. Constructing a Cultural Trauma -- 6. Silence, Youth, and Change -- 7. Fine Families and a Forgotten Past: The New Narrative -- 8. Techniques of Memory -- 9. Conclusion.This illuminating volume examines how the 1963 bombing of the Sixteen…
1: Introduction -- 2: Russian Early Period of Sociology: Predecessors and First Professionals -- 3: Russian sociology in the 1920s-mid-1950s: Beginning of Soviet Sociology -- 4: Revival, Partial Institutionalization, Stagnation and Final Recognition of Soviet Sociology -- 5: From Soviet Sociology to Scientific Discipline -- 6: Gender Studies: the Novelty at the Russian Academic Scene -- 7: Whit…
1. Introduction -- 2. War, Hope, and Fear. – 3. Writings on Violence at the End of a Long Life -- 3. Figurational Analysis of Michael Haneke’s Time of the Wolf -- 4. Violence and Civilité: The Ambivalences of the State -- 5. Elias’ Civilizing Process and the Janus-faced of Modernity -- 6. Civilisation and Violence at the Periphery of Capitalism: Notes for Rethinking the Brazilian Civiliz…