1st Edition

Sociology in the Soviet Union and Beyond Social Enquiry and Social Change

By Elizabeth A. Weinberg Copyright 2004
215 Pages
by Routledge

215 Pages
by Routledge

215 Pages
by Routledge

This fascinating and comprehensive volume traces the development, scope and character of sociological research in Russia and subsequently the Soviet Union from the turn of the 20th century to the 1990s. Opening with the lively social debates of pre-Revolution Russia, Elizabeth Weinberg discusses the intellectual factions of the post-Revolutionary period and the eventual replacement of 'idealism'... Read more
Contents: Historical background; Soviet and bourgeois sociology; The theory of research; The sociologists; Areas of research; Public opinion research; Time budget research; Perestroika and Soviet sociology; Concluding thoughts - past, present and future; Glossary; Appendix I; Appendix II; Bibliography; Index.

Biography

Elizabeth A. Weinberg