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%T Radicalised Transformation, the Institutional Tensions and Modernisation Challenges %A Muller, Karel %A Havelka, Milos %J Sociologický časopis / Czech Sociological Review %N 2 %P 179-195 %V 5 %D 1997 %K Modernization %= 2009-03-17T16:21:00Z %> https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-54211 %X 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. %C MISC %G en %9 journal article %W GESIS - http://www.gesis.org %~ SSOAR - http://www.ssoar.info