Kultureller Rückstand als eine Determinante der sozialen Konflikte während der Transformationszeit
Cultural Lag as a Determinant of Social Conflicts of the Transformation Period

Summary/Abstract: The everyday reality of the post-communist countries is full of conflicts, which reflect specific historical developments and complicated social relations inside transforming societies. The starting point of the article is the author’s assumption, that politics can not be simplistically conceptualized as the assertion of group interests independent from the concrete cultural context, but it has to be regarded as one a spect of the overall cultural system. The paper puts forward one explanatory framework. It is based on the concept of cultural lag and it is an attempt at a cultural explanation of the social processes accompanying the transformation of Slovak society.

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