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This volume is devoted to the central themes in Iván Szelényi's sociological oeuvre comprising of empirical explorations and their theoretical refinement in the last 50 years. The contributors have been asked to take interpretive and critical stances on his work, and to clarify the relevance of his insights. Iván Szelényi has been asked to write a concluding chapter, and respond to the present reflections on his work. The ensuing volume discusses Szelényi's captivating scholarship as being 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.
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
