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II Summer Session European Visions and Divisions: Social Inequalities and Social Participation
The intellectual challenge of the project is focused on the question of “How universal is sociological knowledge about European societies?” specified through debates on applicability of western theories of social inequalities to describe and explain the NEE societies. Theoretical interpretation of the “social inequality” concept in the project is explored within the newest contributions in theoretical synthesis of objectivistic and constructivist approaches, or the synthesis of structure-, agency- and culture-oriented paradigms in Sociology, and their applications in social inequality theories at the threshold of the 20th-21st century. Ongoing societal transformations including post-communist ones challenge essentially traditional concepts of social inequality. Are these concepts still valid or are they becoming more and more obsolete due to significant changes in economic and social structures? Are new social inequalities replacing the old’ ones? What is applicability of the ’western’ concepts of social inequality and its structural, agent and cultural dimensions to description and explanation of NEE’ societies which are forming their post-communist’ market, civil society and political regimes? These questions are posed as intellectual challenges for development the teaching modules
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