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Communism Unwrapped
Communism Unwrapped is a collection of essays that unwraps the complex world of consumption under communism in postwar Eastern Europe, featuring new work by both American and European scholars writing from variety of disciplinary perspectives. The result is a fresh look at everyday life under communism that explores the ways people shopped, ate, drank, smoked, cooked, acquired, exchanged and assessed goods. These phenomena, the editors argue, were central to the way that communism was lived and experienced in its widely varied contexts in the region. Consumption pervaded everyday life far more than most other political and social phenomena. From design, to production, to retail sales and black market exchange, Communism Unwrapped follows communist goods from producer to consumer, tracing their circuitous routes. In the communist world this journey was rife with its own meanings, shaped by the special political and social circumstances of these societies. In examining consumption behind the Iron Curtain, this volume builds on a new field of study. It brings dimension and nuance to our understanding of the communist period and a new perspective to our current analyses of consumerism.
Transitional Justice in Poland
In this study of the mechanisms of transitional justice in Poland, Frances Millard asks: How does society come to terms with its past? How should it punish the perpetrators of oppression and acknowledge its victims? In the former communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe the task of answering these questions came down to the need to eliminate the communist parties' hold over the state, the economy and society in order to move towards democracy. Millard argues that the key step in achieving this was uncovering the truth about the previous regime's past, prosecuting the perpetrators of past crimes and providing compensation and restitution for its victims. Through the specific case of ...
Nauki o polityce publicznej
W 1928 r. Florian Znaniecki postulował utworzenie w Polsce instytutu socjologii stosowanej; uważał, że socjologia ma największe walory praktycznej przydatności, także dla polityk publicznych, dla projektowania rozwiązań problemów społecznych. W pewnym sensie postulat Znanieckiego urzeczywistniony został w 1972 roku przez powołanie w Uniwersytecie Warszawskim, z inicjatywy Adama Podgóreckiego, Czesława Czapówa i Marii Łoś oraz Sekcji Socjotechniki Polskiego Towarzystwa Socjologicznego, pozawydziałowego Instytutu Profilaktyki Społecznej i Resocjalizacji, którego zadaniem miało być prowadzenie badań i sporządzanie ekspertyz problemów społecznych dla potrzeb polityki i...
Institutional Responses to Drug Demand in Central Europe
This title was first first published in 2002: Understanding the link between institutional contexts and drug problems is crucial to the process of developing appropriate drug policies and drug demand reduction strategies. However, this link is too often taken for granted, with most drug-related research relying on epidemiological, bio-medical or clinical approaches, ignoring the social contexts in which drug use finds its causes and where its consequences are most visible and hardest felt. This book analyses the institutional responses to the drug problem in the States of Central and Eastern Europe, providing conclusive evidence that the drug problem is a social one and that its causes emerge from a broad array of social factors. Charting the changing policy perceptions and attitudes towards drugs and related problems alongside new organizations designed to counteract drug-related problems, the book provides important new insights into one of the most important problems confronting nations around the world.
Studia socjologiczne
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