Abstract: Preface, Grazyna Skapska SECTION ONE: THE MORAL FABRIC IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES: TWO PERSPECTIVES Morality in Contemporary Society, Masamichi Sasaki Morality in Contemporary Social Theory, Grazyna Skapska SECTION TWO: TRUST IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES Trust: A Cultural Resource,Piotr Sztompka Some Observations on Problems of Trust in Modern Societies, Shmuel Eisenstadt SECTION THREE: PROMISES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS: EASTERN EUROPE AFTER COMMUNISM SEEN FROM SYDNEY AND PRAGUE Parables of Hope and Disappointment, Martin Krygier Everyday Democracy in the Czech Republic: Disappointments or New Morals in a Time of Neo-Normalization, Jirina Siklova SECTION FOUR: DIVIDED WORLD - FACES OF INEQUALITIES Dimensions and Processes of Global Inequalities, Goran Therborn Postsocialist Transformations and Various Faces of Inequalities in the Divided World, Pavel Machonin SECTION FIVE: COPING WITH CORRUPTION Is a Sociology of Corruption Possible?,Jacek Kurczewski The Paths of Italian Corruption,Vincenzo Ferrari Trust-Mistrust in European Democracies, Mattei Dogan SECTION SIX:THE MORAL SENSE OF MODERNIZATION The Moral Dimensions and Tensions of Modernity, Shmuel Eisenstadt Varieties and Transcendence of Modernity, Bjorn Wittrock Modernity, Tradition and the Shi'ite Reformation in Contemporary Iran?, Said Amir Arjomand Literature and the Moral Imagination of Modernity, Sudipta Kaviraj SECTION SEVEN: TERROR, GENOCIDE, AND VIOLENCE The De-Civilizing Process, Eliezer Ben Rafael Women, children, older people: Genocide, Warfare, and the Functional Differentiation of Society, Klaus Dammann Society as a Morality-Silencing Force: Primo Levi, Existential Power, and the Concentration Camp, Nigel Rapport Answers to Atrocities, Nils Christie AFTERWORD The Moral Fabric: Diverse Textures in the Postmodern World, Krzysztof Kowalski& Annamaria Orla-Bukowska List of Editors and Contributors
Publication Year: 2003
Publication Date: 2003-01-01
Language: en
Type: book
Access and Citation
Cited By Count: 4
AI Researcher Chatbot
Get quick answers to your questions about the article from our AI researcher chatbot