Explaining Social Processes Perspectives from Current Social Theory
This textbook considers understanding social processes to be the main task of sociology. From this perspective its authors demonstrate and explain problems which they consider to be crucial for contemporary social science. These are topics of a theoretica
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aining Social Processes
Perspectives from Current Social Theory and Historical Sociology
Explaining Social Processes
Jiří Šubrt • Alemayehu Kumsa • Massimiliano Ruzzeddu
Explaining Social Processes Perspectives from Current Social Theory and Historical Sociology
Jiří Šubrt Department of Historical Sociology Charles University Prague, Czech Republic
Alemayehu Kumsa Department of Human Resources Management Škoda auto, Vysoká škola, Mladá Boleslav Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic
Massimiliano Ruzzeddu Settore Scientifico disciplinare Sociologia generale Università degli studi Niccolò Cusano Rome, Roma, Italy
ISBN 978-3-030-52182-0 ISBN 978-3-030-52183-7 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52183-7
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Acknowledgments
The authors of this book feel obliged to thank those who have connected them, initiated their cooperation, and supported it in its development. First of all, the World Complexity Science Academy (WCSA) deserves our gratitude, for it was its third conference in 2012 in Vienna which provided our opening opportunities for networking. The subsequent regular WCSA conferences—mainly thanks to the stimulating leadership of Prof. Andrea Pitasi—led to a deepening of these relationships of professional cooperation, which then took place at the events of the International Sociological Society (ISA) and the European Sociological Society (ESA). An important role was played by the Department of Historical Sociology in Prague at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University, which offered space for mutua
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