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The moral fabric in contemporary societies / edited by Grazyna Skapska and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska, with collaboration of Kryzysztof Kowalski.

By: Institut international de sociologie. World Congress (35th : 2001 : Kraków, Poland)
Contributor(s): Skąpska, Grażyna | Orla-Bukowska, Annamaria | Kowalski, Krzysztof, 1969-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Annals of the International Institute of Sociology: new ser., v. 9.Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, 2003Description: ix, 379 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9004131140Subject(s): Moral conditions -- Congresses | Social norms -- Congresses | Civilization, Modern -- 21st century -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses | Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Congresses | Social problems -- CongressesDDC classification: 306 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Morality in contemporary society / Masamichi Sasaki -- The moral fabric in contemporary societies: some remarks on the paradigm shift in sociological theory / Grażyna Skąpska -- Trust: a cultural resource / Piotr Sztompka -- Some observations on problems of trust in modern societies: construction of trust, collective identity, and the fragility and continuity of Democratic regimes / Shmuel Eisenstadt -- Parables of hope and disappointment / Martin Krygier -- Everyday democracy in the Czech Republic: disappointments or new morals in a time of neo-normalization / Jiřina Šiklová -- The genealogical search initiatve and its Soviet legacy / Elena Zdravomyslova -- Dimensions and processes of global inequalities / Göran Therborn -- Postsocialist transformations and various faces of inequalities in the divided world / Pavel Machonin -- Is a sociology of corruption possible? / Jacek Kurczewski -- The paths of Italian corruption / Vincenzo Ferrari -- Trust-mistrust in European democracies / Mattei Dogan -- The moral dimensions and tensions of modernity / Shmuel Eisenstadt -- The cultural constitution of modernity / Björn Wittrock -- Modernity, tradition and the Shiʻite reformation in contemporary Iran / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- Literature and the moral imagination of modernity / Sudipta Kaviraj -- The de-civilizing process / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- "Women, children, older people": genocide, warfare, and the functional differentiation of society / Klaus Dammann -- Society as a "morality-silencing" force: Primo Levi, existential power, and the concentration camp / Nigel Rapport -- Answers to atrocities / Nils Christie -- The moral fabric: diverse textures in the postmodern world / Krzysztof Kowalski and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska.

"Proceedings of the 35th Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, held in July 2001 in Kraków, Poland"--P. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Morality in contemporary society / Masamichi Sasaki -- The moral fabric in contemporary societies: some remarks on the paradigm shift in sociological theory / Grażyna Skąpska -- Trust: a cultural resource / Piotr Sztompka -- Some observations on problems of trust in modern societies: construction of trust, collective identity, and the fragility and continuity of Democratic regimes / Shmuel Eisenstadt -- Parables of hope and disappointment / Martin Krygier -- Everyday democracy in the Czech Republic: disappointments or new morals in a time of neo-normalization / Jiřina Šiklová -- The genealogical search initiatve and its Soviet legacy / Elena Zdravomyslova -- Dimensions and processes of global inequalities / Göran Therborn -- Postsocialist transformations and various faces of inequalities in the divided world / Pavel Machonin -- Is a sociology of corruption possible? / Jacek Kurczewski -- The paths of Italian corruption / Vincenzo Ferrari -- Trust-mistrust in European democracies / Mattei Dogan -- The moral dimensions and tensions of modernity / Shmuel Eisenstadt -- The cultural constitution of modernity / Björn Wittrock -- Modernity, tradition and the Shiʻite reformation in contemporary Iran / Saïd Amir Arjomand -- Literature and the moral imagination of modernity / Sudipta Kaviraj -- The de-civilizing process / Eliezer Ben-Rafael -- "Women, children, older people": genocide, warfare, and the functional differentiation of society / Klaus Dammann -- Society as a "morality-silencing" force: Primo Levi, existential power, and the concentration camp / Nigel Rapport -- Answers to atrocities / Nils Christie -- The moral fabric: diverse textures in the postmodern world / Krzysztof Kowalski and Annamaria Orla-Bukowska.

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