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Values and Radical Social Change: Comparing Polish and South-African Experience

Values and Radical Social Change: Comparing Polish and South-African Experience

Sampie J. Terreblanche
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Comparing Polish and South African experience in social matters seems to be - at the first glance - quite an exotic venture. What can eventually be common for two, so different and remote societies and countries? Does it make any sense to juxtapose South Africa, overcoming the legacy of apartheid, and Poland, that is struggling with the remnants of the communist system? Communism and apartheid were two quite different oppressive systems. And what about cultural differences and totally different historical paths and local traditions? Such doubts are naturally legitimate, but on the other hand - all sociological grand theories take for granted that social life of various human communities cannot be reduced only to unique, local phenomena and that there is certain universality in basic mechanisms which enable the communities to function. Contents: Introduction ; Reform, Revolution and Restoration: Three Features of the Post-Communist Transformation ; With or Against the Tide? Changes in the Interest and Value Orientations of the Polish Society in the Systemic Transformation ; Political Change and Shifts in South African Value Orientations, 1990-1995: An Empirical Analysis ; Values as the Basis for Social Transformation: Report on a South African Experience ; Ruling Ideologies and the Ruled: The Case of South Africa and Poland ; Values and Tolerance in a Society in Transition: The South African Case ; Transformation, Reform and Attitudes to Neo-Corporatism in Poland, Finland and Australia ; Building Consensus in the Economy: An Outline of the Debate
Language
English
Pages
164
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Release
May 12, 1998
ISBN
8386759607
ISBN 13
9788386759606

Values and Radical Social Change: Comparing Polish and South-African Experience

Sampie J. Terreblanche
5/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
Comparing Polish and South African experience in social matters seems to be - at the first glance - quite an exotic venture. What can eventually be common for two, so different and remote societies and countries? Does it make any sense to juxtapose South Africa, overcoming the legacy of apartheid, and Poland, that is struggling with the remnants of the communist system? Communism and apartheid were two quite different oppressive systems. And what about cultural differences and totally different historical paths and local traditions? Such doubts are naturally legitimate, but on the other hand - all sociological grand theories take for granted that social life of various human communities cannot be reduced only to unique, local phenomena and that there is certain universality in basic mechanisms which enable the communities to function. Contents: Introduction ; Reform, Revolution and Restoration: Three Features of the Post-Communist Transformation ; With or Against the Tide? Changes in the Interest and Value Orientations of the Polish Society in the Systemic Transformation ; Political Change and Shifts in South African Value Orientations, 1990-1995: An Empirical Analysis ; Values as the Basis for Social Transformation: Report on a South African Experience ; Ruling Ideologies and the Ruled: The Case of South Africa and Poland ; Values and Tolerance in a Society in Transition: The South African Case ; Transformation, Reform and Attitudes to Neo-Corporatism in Poland, Finland and Australia ; Building Consensus in the Economy: An Outline of the Debate
Language
English
Pages
164
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
Release
May 12, 1998
ISBN
8386759607
ISBN 13
9788386759606

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