Introduction: An Institutional History of Sociology in the Czech Republic

Skovajsa, Marek; Balon, Jan

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“…We agree that the "anachronistic label" of a public sociologist "should not be taken too far." 27 However, the label seems to apply rather well to Czech sociology with Tomáš garrigue Masaryk and edvard Beneš, to Hungarian sociology with its early division into the nationalist and Western-universalist agendas, and to Romanian sociology with Dimitrie gusti's concept of "sociologia militans," 28 or its manifold concern with the burning peasant question. 29 The work of gusti's younger collaborator, Henri H. Stahl, is an excellent example of the creative value of combining the pre-war experience of engaged sociology with a Marxist commitment and an agenda of sociohistorical studies.…”

Section: Historical Sociology In East Central Europe: On the Limitati...mentioning

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Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past

Kolasa-Nowak

Bucholc

2021

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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The development of Polish institutional sociology since the 1920s reflects the combined effects of domestic political and cultural factors, along with international interdependencies. Historical sociology shares in the vicissitudes of the whole discipline. Although historical sociology was only weakly institutionalized before 1989, some of the best sociological studies produced in Poland under socialism display the keen use of historical imagination, inspired both by the pre-1939 domestic tradition and by Marxist theory. This article examines the path of historical sociology in Poland after 1989 and the connection between the sociological uses of history and the experience of post-communist transformation. We posit that the social transformation experience and how it was addressed by social science directly translate into the use of history in Polish sociology after 1989. We argue that the role of historical sociology in Poland since the end of the 1990s was a function of the potential of the past as a symbolic resource in the growing interdependence between Poland and Western Europe. However, the post-1989 research agendas of historical sociology were forged according to the mode of responsiveness to political agendas predating 1989. An overview of the development of Polish historical sociology demonstrates that the ahistorical transitological thinking after 1989 has been challenged by critical agendas in historical sociology, but it was, in the first place, a reaction to the increased potential of the past as a symbolic resource in political debates. Thus, the rationale for the passage to the third wave of historical sociology was primarily political.

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Section: Historical Sociology In East Central Europe: On the Limitati...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past

Kolasa-Nowak

Bucholc

2021

East European Politics and Societies: and Cultures

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Between Westernization and Traditionalism: Central and Eastern European Academia during the Transformation in the 1990s

Surman

Petushkova

2022

Stud. Hist. Sci.

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2021 saw the thirtieth anniversary of the collapse of the Soviet Union, and there is a growing interest in the historicization of the past 30 years of transformation. Taking this anniversary as a point of departure, we want to look into a specific area that has markedly changed in the last three decades – the scholarly community. The interest of analysing the academia in a period of transformation is not new, and the 1990s are amply covered by the literature scrutinising changes and forging plans for the future development, but we intend to enrich this discussion with approaches coming from the history of science and of scholarship. By looking at changes that happened in the decade following the end of the Socialist utopia, we propose to look into mechanisms of organizational and intellectual innovation and place them in the context of European and global integration. As we argue, looking at the 1990s in Central and Eastern Europe can help us to understand how scholarly systems change by oscillating between tradition and innovation, and we propose the notions of a selective Westernisation and an equally selective traditionalism for our case study.

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Introduction: An Institutional History of Sociology in the Czech Republic

Cited by 2 publications

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Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past

Historical Sociology in Poland: Transformations of the Uses of the Past

Between Westernization and Traditionalism: Central and Eastern European Academia during the Transformation in the 1990s

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