Bronislaw Misztal
Biographic Data
| ID | 3659627 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bronislaw Misztal |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bronislaw |
| FAMILY NAME | Misztal |
| SIGNATURE | MISZTAL B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Pitzer College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
En Tant Que Mouvement Social
The events of 1989, frequently referred to as a "velvet revolution", in the countries of the former Communist bloc should be analyzed as an exceptional course of historical processes rather than as a regular historical law of transformation and tran sition. When dealing with these events, Western scholars have too often forgotten that politics is a function of culture; and culture, a function and production of structural processes at the very hea…
Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action
Preface Secularization, Globalization, and Social Action Fundamentalism and Globalization: Fundamentalist Movements at the Twilight of the Twentieth Century by Bronislaw Misztal and Anson Shupe Secularization and Religious Modernity in Western Europe by Daniele Hervieu-Leger Open Society, Social Action and the Prospects of Social Mobilization in the Twenty-First Century by Bronislaw Misztal The Rationality Debate in Religiosity: Implications for …
Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action
Power to the People
Introduction The New Interstate System Cold War Superpower Spheres and Dictatorships Oil Crisis and Dictatorship in Southern Europe Debt and Dictatorship in Latin America Democratization in Latin America Growth and Democratization in East Asia Crisis and Reform in the Soviet Union Democratization in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union Debt and Divestment in South Africa Democracy and Development
Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action
Religious social action groups are emerging as key movers in sweeping sociopolitical changes world-wide. Although their inspiration is religious, their goals are secular. This volume considers the role of such groups by examining regions and nations where change has been most dramatic. Areas researched include: Western Europe, North America, the Amazonian rain basin, Malaysia, Japan, Russia, Northern Ireland, and Israel. The movements studied are…
Politics and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
Polish Society
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
The Road from Paradise
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland
Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Between the State and Solidarity
The movement known as Orange Alternative emerged in Poland in early 1980s and it continues to operate even though the original conditions of the socialist reality changed. From a relatively small and vanguard form of street theatre it grew to a form of manifestation of one's discontent with the world of symbols. A similar movement exists in Hungary. In this work the Orange phenomenon is analyzed as a form of response to dichotomous organization o…
Uncontrolled Processes in the Socialist City
The State's Capacity to Change
The processes which occurred in the Philippines in 1986 were perceived as similar to the ones which took place in Poland in 1980-1981. This perceived similarity is based on some aspects of the state structure and on the fact that in both cases society rebelled against the regime. By looking into the two cases we analyze the repressive regimes as being a product of a specific constellation of political, social and economic processes which emerge o…
Poland after Solidarity
The unexpected emergence of the Solidarity movement in Poland has focused Western attention on conflicts within socialist states. The rapid truncation of Solidarity and the rise of a new image of the state as a militarized, relatively autonomous, repressive apparatus has left several theoretical questions unresolved and raised some new ones. This volume draws from historical and political accounts of the events that haunted Poland between 1980 an…
A Village without Solidarity
Images of Barriers to Social Development in Polish Sociological Thought
This article examines the image of barriers to development and change of socialist society, as seen by Polish sociologists. The question of planning and directing social development is of crucial meaning for socialist ideology. Therefore revealing how the ideal type of socialist society confronts both the reality of social pressures and of political restraints illuminates the state of the theory of socialist society. Three types of theories are e…
Urban Social Problems in Poland
This article examines developmental processes in postwar Poland. The primacy of politics over economy is an ideological principle of socialist systems. Developmental processes, therefore, are controlled by political and not economic logic. After the initial period of political pluralism in Poland (1944-1948), when the improvement of social consumption was outlined as a developmental strategy, the subsequent political programs fostered overindustr…
The Explanatory Utility of Major Sociological Theories Developed in Poland 1970-1980
This paper deals with the sociological theories that developed in Poland during the height of societal expectations for better life and a brighter future. However, the decade of 1970-80 already contained seeds of crisis. The mainstream sociological theories that are analysed here neglected many of the alarming features of the socialist society already to be seen. Instead, the proponents of those theories actively supported the political enterpris…
The Petite Bourgeoisie in Socialist Society
Questions surrounding the existence of the petite bourgeoisie in socialist society arouse considerable controversy. To avoid purely semantic misunderstanding therefore it might be as well to state at the outset that this paper will consider the following problems: 1. Is the petite bourgeoisie in socialist society a class or a stratum? 2. What are the relationships between the petite bourgeoisie and other adjacent social groupings in socialist soc…
Between the State and Solidarity
The movement known as Orange Alternative emerged in Poland in early 1980s and it continues to operate even though the original conditions of the socialist reality changed. From a relatively small and vanguard form of street theatre it grew to a form of manifestation of one's discontent with the world of symbols. A similar movement exists in Hungary. In this work the Orange phenomenon is analyzed as a form of response to dichotomous organization o…
Uncontrolled Processes in the Socialist City
The Petite Bourgeoisie in Socialist Society
Questions surrounding the existence of the petite bourgeoisie in socialist society arouse considerable controversy. To avoid purely semantic misunderstanding therefore it might be as well to state at the outset that this paper will consider the following problems: 1. Is the petite bourgeoisie in socialist society a class or a stratum? 2. What are the relationships between the petite bourgeoisie and other adjacent social groupings in socialist soc…
Urban Social Problems in Poland
This article examines developmental processes in postwar Poland. The primacy of politics over economy is an ideological principle of socialist systems. Developmental processes, therefore, are controlled by political and not economic logic. After the initial period of political pluralism in Poland (1944-1948), when the improvement of social consumption was outlined as a developmental strategy, the subsequent political programs fostered overindustr…
The Explanatory Utility of Major Sociological Theories Developed in Poland 1970-1980
This paper deals with the sociological theories that developed in Poland during the height of societal expectations for better life and a brighter future. However, the decade of 1970-80 already contained seeds of crisis. The mainstream sociological theories that are analysed here neglected many of the alarming features of the socialist society already to be seen. Instead, the proponents of those theories actively supported the political enterpris…
Images of Barriers to Social Development in Polish Sociological Thought
This article examines the image of barriers to development and change of socialist society, as seen by Polish sociologists. The question of planning and directing social development is of crucial meaning for socialist ideology. Therefore revealing how the ideal type of socialist society confronts both the reality of social pressures and of political restraints illuminates the state of the theory of socialist society. Three types of theories are e…
The State's Capacity to Change
The processes which occurred in the Philippines in 1986 were perceived as similar to the ones which took place in Poland in 1980-1981. This perceived similarity is based on some aspects of the state structure and on the fact that in both cases society rebelled against the regime. By looking into the two cases we analyze the repressive regimes as being a product of a specific constellation of political, social and economic processes which emerge o…
Poland after Solidarity
The unexpected emergence of the Solidarity movement in Poland has focused Western attention on conflicts within socialist states. The rapid truncation of Solidarity and the rise of a new image of the state as a militarized, relatively autonomous, repressive apparatus has left several theoretical questions unresolved and raised some new ones. This volume draws from historical and political accounts of the events that haunted Poland between 1980 an…
A Village without Solidarity
Uncontrolled Processes in the Socialist City
Between the State and Solidarity
The movement known as Orange Alternative emerged in Poland in early 1980s and it continues to operate even though the original conditions of the socialist reality changed. From a relatively small and vanguard form of street theatre it grew to a form of manifestation of one's discontent with the world of symbols. A similar movement exists in Hungary. In this work the Orange phenomenon is analyzed as a form of response to dichotomous organization o…
Professionals, Power and Solidarity in Poland
Reluctant Socialists, Rural Entrepreneurs
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
The Road from Paradise
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Religion and Politics in Comparative Perspective
Politics and Religion in Central and Eastern Europe
Polish Society
Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action
Religious social action groups are emerging as key movers in sweeping sociopolitical changes world-wide. Although their inspiration is religious, their goals are secular. This volume considers the role of such groups by examining regions and nations where change has been most dramatic. Areas researched include: Western Europe, North America, the Amazonian rain basin, Malaysia, Japan, Russia, Northern Ireland, and Israel. The movements studied are…
Power to the People
Introduction The New Interstate System Cold War Superpower Spheres and Dictatorships Oil Crisis and Dictatorship in Southern Europe Debt and Dictatorship in Latin America Democratization in Latin America Growth and Democratization in East Asia Crisis and Reform in the Soviet Union Democratization in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union Debt and Divestment in South Africa Democracy and Development
Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action
Preface Secularization, Globalization, and Social Action Fundamentalism and Globalization: Fundamentalist Movements at the Twilight of the Twentieth Century by Bronislaw Misztal and Anson Shupe Secularization and Religious Modernity in Western Europe by Daniele Hervieu-Leger Open Society, Social Action and the Prospects of Social Mobilization in the Twenty-First Century by Bronislaw Misztal The Rationality Debate in Religiosity: Implications for …
Religion, Mobilization, and Social Action
En Tant Que Mouvement Social
The events of 1989, frequently referred to as a "velvet revolution", in the countries of the former Communist bloc should be analyzed as an exceptional course of historical processes rather than as a regular historical law of transformation and tran sition. When dealing with these events, Western scholars have too often forgotten that politics is a function of culture; and culture, a function and production of structural processes at the very hea…
Political science (23 works) · Law (20 works) · Politics (19 works) · Sociology (18 works) · Economics (9 works) · Philosophy (9 works) · Art (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Polish Historical and Cultural Studies (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)