What’s New in East-Central European Sociology?
What’s New in East-Central European Sociology?

Summary/Abstract: Hungarian sociology can be suspected to have faced the dilemma of imitation or invention in the 1980s, whereas the same happened to Romanian sociology only after the collapse of communism. Therefore we tried to maintain a broad time scale during the analysis. Is it possible or worth talking about East-Central European sociology? Isn’t it merely our common adoration of the West that creates an empty shell: East-Central Europe? Don’t we simply want to fill in the white spots on our cognitive map with colors? And if this is not so, what makes Polish, Hungarian, Romanian, Slovak or Serbian sociology East-Central European? Do the shared socialist past and the consequent social similarities bind sociologies quizzing social phenomena? Or does the similarity of sociologists’ roles create an East-Central Europeanness?

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