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

Contributor(s): Krausz, Ernest | Tulea, Gitta
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Pub., 2003Copyright date: ©2002Edition: First paperback editionDescription: xv, 231 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0765809516 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780765809513 (pbk. : alk. paper)Other title: Starting the 21st centurySubject(s): Social values | Social problems | Social planning | Jews -- Identity | Jewish diasporaBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Postmodernism and the cunning of reason / Gitta Tulea and Ernest Krausz -- Space in the globalizing world / Zygmunt Bauman -- Barbarism and modernity : the destructive components of modernity - the perennial challenge / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Social science as cultural formation : a view from America / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Development of applied social science - the World Bank experience / Michael M. Cernea -- Progressing health and healthcare : a positive role for sociology? / David Marsland -- Socialist and capitalist experiments in the twentieth century - the case of Russia / Rozalina Ryvkina and Leonid Kosals -- Post-communist societies : ten years after / Jerzy J. Wiatr --Jewish identities and the diaspora - the diaspora paradigm confronting modernity / Régine Azria -- The Jews of independent Poland - linguistic and cultural changes / Nathan Cohen -- Who rules Israel? / Eva Etzioni-Halevy -- Despoliation, reparation, compensation : the case of the Jews in France / Annette Wieviorka.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Postmodernism and the cunning of reason / Gitta Tulea and Ernest Krausz -- Space in the globalizing world / Zygmunt Bauman -- Barbarism and modernity : the destructive components of modernity - the perennial challenge / S.N. Eisenstadt -- Social science as cultural formation : a view from America / Irving Louis Horowitz -- Development of applied social science - the World Bank experience / Michael M. Cernea -- Progressing health and healthcare : a positive role for sociology? / David Marsland -- Socialist and capitalist experiments in the twentieth century - the case of Russia / Rozalina Ryvkina and Leonid Kosals -- Post-communist societies : ten years after / Jerzy J. Wiatr --Jewish identities and the diaspora - the diaspora paradigm confronting modernity / Régine Azria -- The Jews of independent Poland - linguistic and cultural changes / Nathan Cohen -- Who rules Israel? / Eva Etzioni-Halevy -- Despoliation, reparation, compensation : the case of the Jews in France / Annette Wieviorka.

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