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Models of Socialist Develo p ment

Models of Socialist Develo p ment Models of Socialist Develo p ment T. ANTHONY JONES University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A. SINCE THE DEATH of Stalin in 1953, social scientists have shown increasing interest in explaining the nature of Soviet society, and more recently of the societies of Eastern Europe as well. As the debate gathered momentum, the focus shifted from a concern with the USSR toward that of the nature of "socialist" societies as a general type, and with this transition the study of these societies has gradually been incorporated into the general body of social science concerns. The happy result of this development has been a movement away from seeing socialist societies as unique entities towards seeing them as variants of a more general type, that of industrial society. We now find ourselves faced with an increasingly sophisticated array of analyses, and with an amount and diversity of empirical material which was inconceivable a decade or two ago. A less happy aspect of this development has been the conspicuous absence of sociologists among the contributors. In spite of the fact that the study of socialist societies provides a challenge to the most central concerns of sociology as http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology) Brill

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
© 1983 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
0020-7152
eISSN
1745-2554
DOI
10.1163/156854283X00062
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Abstract

Models of Socialist Develo p ment T. ANTHONY JONES University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, U.S.A. SINCE THE DEATH of Stalin in 1953, social scientists have shown increasing interest in explaining the nature of Soviet society, and more recently of the societies of Eastern Europe as well. As the debate gathered momentum, the focus shifted from a concern with the USSR toward that of the nature of "socialist" societies as a general type, and with this transition the study of these societies has gradually been incorporated into the general body of social science concerns. The happy result of this development has been a movement away from seeing socialist societies as unique entities towards seeing them as variants of a more general type, that of industrial society. We now find ourselves faced with an increasingly sophisticated array of analyses, and with an amount and diversity of empirical material which was inconceivable a decade or two ago. A less happy aspect of this development has been the conspicuous absence of sociologists among the contributors. In spite of the fact that the study of socialist societies provides a challenge to the most central concerns of sociology as

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International Journal of Comparative Sociology (in 2002 continued as Comparative Sociology)Brill

Published: Jan 1, 1983

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