TRANS-NACIONALNOST SOCIOLOŠKE MISLI
TRANS-NATIONALITY OF SOCIOLOGICAL THOUGHT

Summary/Abstract: Social science in the western world is, among other things, searching for answers to questions of globalization and trans-nationalization, dividable sovereignty, multilevel governing or subsidiarity, regionalism and the so-called governing beyond the national state. On the other hand, our sociological and political science mostly keeps quiet on those issues. Namely, everything related to the terms ‘trans-nationalization’ or ‘crossborder socialization’ opens up questions which, both in theoretical and empirical sense, outnumber the possible answers at this moment. That is the reason for which the 35th Congress of the German Society for Sociology, which will be held in Frankfurt am Main (11th – 15th October 2010), chose the topic ‘Trans-National Socializations’. The prepared material and chosen congress topics have served in this review as a basis for problematizing of the phenomenon of ‘trans-nationality of sociological thought’ in the last 100 years both in Germany and elsewhere. After all, there are lively debates worldwide about trans-nationalization, and in this part of the world there is still persistent hypostasing of outdated national-state paradigm of past centuries. In that way, of course, ‘national sociology’ unavoidably remains a servant to politics and predicts that globalization is in fact trans-nationalization and deconstruction of a traditionally perceived national state. In connection to this, the author asks – why does B-H sociology not deal more thorough with transitional quasidemocratic phenomena such as bloody robbery and constituting of a new type of ethno-religious government in B-H and the region? Finally, why, in the search for healing of our ‘sick societies’, don’t we turn to those societies which once were sick, as we are today, and then got better?

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