Social Research articles from December 1996

Social Research archives from December 1996

Paying the bill for goulash communism: Hungarian development and macro stabilization in a political-economy perspective.
December 22, 1996... The Hungarian economy's road from a centralized, planned economy to a market economy displays a number of features that distinguish it from other post-socialist countries despite the underlying similarities. Without aiming to provide a...

Pragmatism, social identity, patriotism, and self-criticism.(philosophy of John Dewey)
December 22, 1996... In this paper, I discuss the connection between Dewey's educational ideals, his philosophy more broadly, and his account of American identity. I contrast Dewey's ideas with those of some other pluralist writers of the period of World War I,...

Language, culture, and national identity.(multiculturalism based on language)
December 22, 1996... Language, culture, and national identity is the title of my paper, but its central subject is the situation of languages in cultures, written or spoken languages still being the main medium of these. More specifically, my subject is...

On torture, or cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment.
December 22, 1996... In this paper I discuss the modern conception of "cruelty," in particular as represented in Article 5 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or...

The essential "other" and the Jew: from antisemitism to genocide.
December 22, 1996... The end of the twentieth century has a very disturbing sense of familiarity for many observers. Just when one thought that the Western world was safe at last, that it had found peace after the collapse of the Soviet empire and the dissipation...

Repertoires of contention in post-communist protest cultures: an East Central European comparative survey.(Hungary, Slovakia, Slovenia)
December 22, 1996... Students of contention in Western Europe and North America commonly emphasize the significance of the political opportunity structure in determining the forms and incidence of public claim-making. I Their arguments apply equally to the...

Of secrecy and the commonplace: witchcraft and power in Soweto.(South Africa)
December 22, 1996... IN 1990, after more than a decade of inquiry into South African politics and history, I found myself living in Soweto, the segregated South Western [black] Townships of Johannesburg. I arrived as a houseguest of the family of a friend in New...