Sociology and Post-Socialist Transformations in Eastern Europe

Borut Rončević is Professor of Sociology at the School of Advanced Social Studies, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and the Faculty of Information Studies, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, and senior research fellow at Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre of Novo mesto, Slovenia. His main research interests are sociological theory, post-socialist transformations, regional innovation systems and information society. He is a fellow of the Regional Studies Association and a member of the Executive Committee of the International Sociological Association. He was Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Troy University (United States), Marie Curie fellow at Aalborg University (Denmark), and has held the Jean Monnet Chair on the topic of Cultural Political Economy of Europe 2020 (2016-2019), and was the head of Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence on the topics of “Technologies and Innovations in Regional Development” (2017-2020) and “Strategic Observatory of Europe 2030” (2019-2022). He has been a visiting scholar at universities and institutes in the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Russia, Denmark, Ireland, Lebanon and Croatia.Tamara Besednjak Valič Is Associate Professor of Sociology at the School of Advanced Social Studies, Nova Gorica, Slovenia, and the Faculty of Information Studies, Novo Mesto, Slovenia, and senior scientific associate at Rudolfovo - Science and Technology Centre of Novo mesto, Slovenia. Her main research interest are post-socialist transformations in context with development of regional innovation systems. She is a National association representative of Slovenia with ISA. She was a board member of Junior Sociologists Network of ISA. She has been a visiting scholar at universities and institutes in the United States, Italy, Finland and Russia.

• Introduction: National Sociological Communities in Post-Socialist Transformations: Activists, Voyeurs, Fellow Travelers or Marginals (Borut Roncevic).- Chapter 1. The Sociology of Sociological Interventions: Do Sociologists Make a Social Difference? ( Patricia Ahmed, Rebecca Emigh, Dylan Riley, Nancy Wang Yuen).- Chapter 2. Sociologists as Intellectuals and their Role in Postcommunist Transformations (Matevz Tomsic).- Part I: National Case Studies.- Chapter 3. Sociology and Post-Communist Transformations: The uniqueness of the Albanian case in East-European context (Leke Sokoli).- Chapter 4. Sociology in Belarus: Where to Go? (Larisa Titarenko).- Chapter 5. What is the Point Since There is no Society? Some Remarks on the Role of Sociology in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Vedad Muharemović).- Chapter 6. Sociology as Factor of Change: Reflections on the Bulgarian Experience ( Nikolai Genov). Chapter 7. Sociology in Post-Transition Transformations of Croatian Society (Jasminka Laznjak).- Chapter 8. Czech Sociology and Transformation in the Three Decades (Ladislav Cabada).- Chapter 9. Sociology and Sociologists during Thirty Years of Estonia’s Post-Socialist Transformation (Mikko Lagerspetz).- Chapter 10. Hungary (Pal Tamas).- Chapter 11. Hurried professionals: Sociology in Latvia (Emils Kilis).- Chapter 12. The Contribution of Sociology to Post-Communist Transformation in Lithuania (Zenonas Norkus and Vaidas Morkevicius). Chapter 12. Macedonia (Konstantin Minoski and Antonela Petkovska).- Chapter 13. Moldovan Post-Socialist Transformation: The (Un)Successfulness of Sociology (Victor Cepoi).- Chapter 14. Sociology as the Witness of Ideological Obedience of Monetenegrin Society (Vladimir Bakrač).- Chapter 15. Polish Sociology and the Post-Socialist Transformation (Agnieszka Kolasa-Nowak).- Chapter 16. Overview of the History of Sociology in Romania: The Last Three Decades (Gabriel Badescu and Sorana Constantinescu).- Chapter 17. Ups and Downs in Russian Sociology (Elena Zdravomyslova and Larisa Titarenko).- Chapter 18. The Role of Sociology in Post-Socialist Transformation in Serbia (Marija Babović, Jelena Pešić, Ivana Spasić).- Chapter 19. Slovak Sociology and Post-Communist Transformation(Robert Klobucky and Silvia Mihalikova).- Chapter 20. The Role of Slovenian Sociologists in Shaping National Imaginary through Discursive Practices (Tea Golob and Tamara B. Valič).- Chapter 21. Sociology and Post-Communist Transformation: Case of Ukraine (Olga Kutsenko, Svitlana Babenko and Viktor Stepanenko).