Theorising Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries

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Theorising Social Change in Post-Soviet Countries is written by Balihar Sanghera and published by Peter Lang. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 3039103296 (ISBN 10) and 9783039103294 (ISBN 13).

The book traces three main approaches to the sociology of post-Soviet societies: studies guided by neoliberal theory and/or practice; work which may be termed neoconservative in orientation, and which is often a response to the first; and a third type of work that is considered both critical and reflexive, and which seeks to transcend the limitations of the other approaches. The book is divided into three parts, addressing polity, culture and economy. In each section, authors endeavour to transcend both neoliberalism and neoconservatism, and reach for a third approach, 'critical social science'. This is a broad movement, and the authors vary in their own explanatory and normative ideas as they carve out frameworks that will enable them to develop a more rigorous and at the same time more comprehensive and critical understanding of social change.