Full Description
This volume is devoted to the central themes in Iván Szelényi 's sociological oeuvre, comprising empirical explorations and their theoretical refinement over the last 50 years. The contributors take interpretive and critical stances on his work, successfully clarifying the relevance of his insights. Taken together, their writing describes Szelényi 's rigorous scholarship as grounded in a complex program for the political economy of socialisms and post-socialist capitalisms, and introduces him as a neoclassical sociologist whose research projects continue to investigate inequalities created by the interaction of markets and redistributive structures in various societies. The volume includes a conclusion by Iván Szelényi, wherein he responds to the reflections presented by the book 's contributors.
Contributors include: Dorothee Bohle, Tamás Demeter, Gil Eyal, Béla Greskovits, Michael D. Kennedy, Tamás Kolosi, Karmo Kroos, Victor Nee, David Ost, Iván Szelényi, and Bruce Western.
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgement
List of Figures and Tables
Notes on Contributors
1
Futures Present: On the Concepts of "Intellectuals" and "Intelligentsia" in Iván Szelényi 's Oeuvre Gil Eyal
2
Normative Frames and Systemic Imperatives: Gouldner, Szelényi and New Class Fracture Michael D. Kennedy
3
New Class Theory as Sociology of Knowledge Tamás Demeter
4
How to become a Dominant or Even Iconic Central and East European Sociologist Karmo Kroos
5
Inequality and Transitions: Human Frailty in a Sample of Prisoners Bruce Western
6
Neoclassical Sociology Meets Polanyian Political Economy Dorothee Bohle and Béla Greskovits
7
Mechanisms of Institutional Change Victor Nee
8
Transitions and Structural Distortions Tamás Kolosi
9
The Ouvrierist Szelényi and the Missing Sociology of Labor David Ost
10
Replies and Comments Iván Szelényi
Index
