СОЦИОЛОГИЈА И ПРОТИВРЕЧЈА ДЕМОКРАТСКЕ ТРАНЗИЦИЈЕ
SOCIOLOGY AND THE CONTRADICTIONS OF DEMOCRATIC TRANSITION

Summary/Abstract: Within the huge changes in Easteuropean societies sociology is in condition to demonstrate its scientific as well as humanistic intentions and possibilities. In these societies a crisis and reform, as a clue od democratic transition, are the crucial topics of political and scientific discourse. The contradictions that accompany this process of transition constitute a real social experiment in vivo, and with this a new challenge for sociology arises. This new challenge includes also the questioning of dominant sociological paradigm. In the second part author is dealing with the stratification structure and institutional order as a condition needed for democratic transition. As the integral part of that process sociology should provide a help in the search for new civil identity exemplary to rising civil society in Serbia.

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