Starting the twenty-first century : sociological reflections & challenges / Ernest Krausz, Gitta Tulea, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Krausz, Ernest.

Tulea, Gitta.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social values.

Social problems.

Social planning.

Jews--Identity.

Jews.

Jewish diaspora.

Physical Description:

xv, 231 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers, [2002]

Contents:

Postmodernism and The Cunning of Reason / Gitta Tulea, Ernest Krausz ix

Part 1 Values and Cultural Changes in the Postmodern World

1. Space in the Globalizing World / Zygmunt Bauman 3

2. Barbarism and Modernity: The Destructive Components of Modernity

The Perennial Challenge / S.N. Eisenstadt 25

3. Social Science as Cultural Formation: A View from America / Irving Louis Horowitz 37

Part 2 Social Development and Policies in Contemporary Society

4. Development of Applied Social Science

The World Bank Experience / Michael M. Cernea 53

5. Progressing Health and Healthcare: A Positive Role for Sociology? / David Marsland 79

Part 3 Societies in Transition

Eastern Europe

6. Socialist and Capitalist Experiments in the Twentieth Century

The Case of Russia / Rozalina Ryvkina, Leonid Kosals 103

7. Post-Communist Societies: Ten Years After / Jerzy J. Wiatr 127

Part 4 The Jewish World: Pre- and Post-Holocaust

8. Jewish Identities and the Diaspora

The Diaspora Paradigm Confronting Modernity / Regine Azria 149

9. The Jews of Independent Poland

Linguistic and Cultural Changes / Nathan Cohen 161

10. Who Rules Israel? / Eva Etzioni-Halevy 177

11. Despoliation, Reparation, Compensation: The Case of the Jews in France / Annette Wieviorka 201.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0765800985

0765809486

OCLC:

47118308