Identities and modernizations
This book presents insights and understandings on the issue of identities and modernizations, contributed mainly by theoreticians from China and scholars from Central and Eastern European countries. Both regions have followed a similar path towards modernization until the second half of the twentieth century. The past experience in both regions leads to two crucial, yet paradoxical conclusions: Firstly, no modernization of economy, technology or science is possible without a prior modernization…
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- Full title :Identities and modernizations / Tadeusz Buksiński (editor).
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This book presents insights and understandings on the issue of identities and modernizations, contributed mainly by theoreticians from China and scholars from Central and Eastern European countries. Both regions have followed a similar path towards modernization until the second half of the twentieth century. The past experience in both regions leads to two crucial, yet paradoxical conclusions: Firstly, no modernization of economy, technology or science is possible without a prior modernization of the collective identity, i.e. of culture, tradition, religion and spirituality in general. Second.
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- Publication Date:©2013
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Peter Lang Edition
- Place of Publication:Frankfurt am Main, Germany
- Language:ger
- Publication Date:©2013
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (318 pages)
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9783653033731, 365303373X, 3631644973, 9783631644973
- oclc:ocn876043495
- LC Classification:JC311
- Dewey Decimal:320.5401
Table of Contents
Cover; Contents; Introduction; Part I Between Identities and Modernization in Central-Eastern Europe; The Revenge of Culture; 1. The concept of culture; 2. Modernization; 3. Ideological and imitative modernization; 4. Self-defence of culture; 5. The paradoxes of the catching up modernization; 6. Europe today; Transnational Identities in Conditions of Global Modernization; Introduction; European identity as a matter of sociological theorizing; Structure and Dynamics of European Identity in the EU; European Identity in a Post-Socialist Society: The Case of Ukraine; Conclusions.
Should We Use or Remove the Veil of Ignorance?Ukrainian Intellectuals: A New Class or Clients of Power?; 1. Introduction; 2. Ukrainian intellectuals in the context of Central European discourse; 3. The Post-Soviet values of intellectual communities: the clash of discourses; 4. Conclusion; Discourse of Modernization Towards Young Generations After 1989. Assumptions and Implications for the Construction of Identity; Introduction; Theoretical background; Research Methodology -- scheme and the steps of the analysis; Four discursive generations -- the results of the conducted analysis.
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