Od socjologii transformacji do socjologii sfery publicznej. Nowe możliwości syntezy wiedzy o zmianie systemowej
From Sociology of Transformation to Sociology of the Public Sphere. New Possibilities for a Synthesis of Knowledge about Systemic Change

Summary/Abstract: Sociological reflection has accompanied the quarter-century of systemic changes in Poland. However, despite the expectations associated with the sociology of transformation, that approach has not yielded a coherent and consistent theory capable of aggregating and synthesizing the wealth of research gathered under this frame of reference. This article attempts to elucidate the determinant factors behind those unfulfilled expectations. More significantly, it aims to identify the new possibilities for accrual of knowledge about the formation of a new post-transformative collective order via a new framework which we label the sociology of the public sphere. The possibilities for developing such an approach are discerned in the growing popularity of the neo-institutional paradigm in the social sciences.

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