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2007 | 43 | 4 | 809-820

Article title

Česká zkušenost a sociologická reflexe Poznámky ke knize Pavla Machonina Česká společnost a sociologické poznání

Authors

Content

Title variants

EN
CZECH EXPERIENCE AND SOCIOLOGICAL REFLECTION: NOTES ON PAVEL MACHONIN'S BOOK 'CZECH SOCIETY AND SOCIOLOGICAL KNOWLEDGE'

Languages of publication

CS

Abstracts

EN
The article deals with some key arguments in Pavel Machonin's book 'Czech Society and Sociological Knowledge', but does not review the whole book. Critical comments focus on four themes. Machonin's conception of sociology as a discipline and a tradition does not do full justice to the inherent pluralism of the sociological imagination. It is useful to link sociological debates to the ideological contest between socialism (more particularly Marxism) and liberalism, but this problematic is more complex than Machonin's analyses tend to suggest; that applies, in particular, to the interpretations of freedom and equality as fundamental modern values. Machonin's attempt to reconstruct modernization theory is open to some criticisms, especially with regard to the debate on 'multiple modernities'. Finally, the concept of state socialism does not help to grasp the complex patterns of modernity that developed under Communist rule.

Year

Volume

43

Issue

4

Pages

809-820

Physical description

Document type

ARTICLE

Contributors

author
  • J. P. Arnason, Fakulta humanitnich studii Univerzity Karlovy, U Krize 10, 158 00 Praha 5 - Jinonice, Czech Republic

References

Document Type

Publication order reference

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier
07CZAAAA03026204

YADDA identifier

bwmeta1.element.a6b3476b-3910-32f6-a0aa-d394f9d3d6d6
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