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Radicalised Transformation, the Institutional Tensions and Modernisation Challenges
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Muller, Karel; Havelka, Milos
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| Abstract | Draws on recent modernization theory & discussions of postmodernity to suggest a theoretical approach to the analysis of postcommunist institutional change in Central & Eastern Europe. Modernization is taken to be an evolutionary process in the direction of societal subsystem functional differentiation with institutional features such as economic extensification & intensification, social mobility, specialization, functionalization of values, & (sometimes) institutionalization of conflicts. This framework is applied to assess intended & unintended social consequences of economic transformation in the Czech Republic. It is concluded that simultaneous economic & political modernization are causing interinstitutional conflicts, resolution of which requires a legitimate arena for voicing social claims &/or the creation of intermediary capacities to avert direct institutional confrontation. |
| Classification | Macrosociology, Analysis of Whole Societies; Political Economy |
| Free Keywords | Modernization; Postmodernism; Eastern Europe; Europe; Social Change; Postcommunist Societies; Czech Republic |
| Document language | English |
| Publication Year | 1997 |
| Page/Pages | p. 179-195 |
| Journal | Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review, 5 (1997) 2 |
| Status | Published Version; reviewed |
| Document Type | journal article |
