Business and Entrepreneurs: Role and Positions in the Modernizing Society
Business and Entrepreneurs: Role and Positions in the Modernizing Society

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on conditions and processes in Bulgarian society, which is simultaneously in the course of globalization and of modernization. The topical sociological debate on the various solutions to contemporary problems in the context of the relations between global and local, universal and specific, community and individual, is reflected in this text in several concrete directions: the development of small and middle business is viewed as a motor of economic revival, restructuring and modernization – here the national specifics of the overall picture are sought; the role of social positions of entrepreneurs is examined in relation to the development of the middle class and part of the range of marginality of social groups in the period of modernization and development of democratic and market structures. At the end of the text the author examines the role of business for the restructuring of social relations and social networks, as well as some dimension of the role of business as mediator for intensifying and integrating the ‘social capital’ of villages as local communities.

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