SOCIOLOGIJA U NOVOM SOCIJALNOM KONTEKSTU
SOCIOLOGY IN A NEW SOCIAL CONTEXT

Summary/Abstract: The author starts with the thesis that social change is a challenge to social research. Two levels of social change are pointed out: planetary changes and changes in countries in transition. The modern society identity problem initiates the problem of the identity of sociology, i.e. a professional discourse about sociology itself and its self reflexiveness. On a planetary level, the challenges presented are developmental disproportions: North-South relations, confrontations of different civilisations (cultures), a manifestation of environmental crises of planetary proportions as a new pecuIiarity of modern society, etc. The question is raised whether sociology can understand modern society. Changes of transition represent a new social context of developmental issues, especially those of modernization - social (changes of ownership structures, institutions, democracy in general) and technological (shutdown of unprofitable plants, unemployment, environmental risks and environmental pollution, etc.). Discussions about sociology have become topical even in societies in transition. Sociology cannot ignore these changes.

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