Nikolai Genov
Biographic Data
| ID | 85001 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nikolai Genov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nikolai |
| FAMILY NAME | Genov |
| SIGNATURE | GENOV N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bulgarian Academy of Sciences |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0266-1991 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 62 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Conceptualizing Global Trends
Numerous publications contain high-quality descriptions of causes, processes, and effects of global trends. However, very few of these publications are theoretically guided or aim at theory building. This is a handicap preventing most publications on global trends from developing high-quality explanations and prognostications. This article contains an attempt at developing a conceptual framework for resolving the issue. The attempt is based on th…
Societal transformation: Eastern European experience and conceptualization
The paper contains analyses of attempts at explaining the profound changes in Eastern Europe after 1989. The analyses are guided by the conceptual framework of social interaction. It covers the micro, meso and macro level of the social organization. The first target is the theory of transition. The diagnosis reveals some constructive features of the theory together with its difficulties to get operationalized and effectively used in explanations.…
Building Global Sociology in a Divided World (1949–1990)
Unlike physics or even demography, sociology is very sensitive to its social environment. That is why the discipline was mired with controversy and confrontations during the Cold War. How did the development of a global sociology become possible in this social context? Due to the complexity of the historical situation, one cannot expect a simple answer. This article contains an attempt at systematically analyzing the globalization of sociology al…
Paradigmatic upgrading of social innovation studies
The guiding idea of this analysis concerns the development of social innovation theory on the paradigmatic basis of the social interaction concept. The aims of the discussion are three-fold. First, the central task is to elaborate on a multidimensional concept of social innovation, defined as organized social change. Second, the development of the social innovation concept is used to evaluate the heuristic potentials of the sociological paradigm …
Towards a paradigmatic enhancement of sociology
This article is a continuation of the debate on the paradigmatic foundations of sociology. The argument reads that any negligence towards the rising number of would-be sociological paradigms stands as counter-productive to sociological theorizing and empirical research. The guiding idea here is that while sociology is a multi-paradigmatic discipline, efforts should still be made to develop paradigmatic syntheses. The suggested direction for resol…
Multi-paradigmatic sociology: Debates present and perennial
Larissa Titarenko and Elena Zdravomyslova, Sociology in Russia: A Brief History
Challenges of Individualization
This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization? Is this phenomenon only related to the 'second' or 'late' modernity? Can the concept of individualization be productively used for developing a sociological diagnosis of our time? The innovative answers suggested in this book are focused on two types of challenges a…
Does Europeanization Foster Constructive Individualization
This paper aims at explaining changes in the conditions for individualization in ten central and eastern European ( cee ) countries after they have joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007. The expected changes had to follow the transfer of the eu ’s acquis communautaire to the cee and the accompanying Europeanization understood as upgrading of governance. Indicators used in longitudinal studies are identified in order to test the assumption. S…
The European Union and its eastern partnership: Explanation and regulation of migration flows
The cross-border migration from the six countries of the Eastern Partnership of the European Union(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to the Union is accelerating. The processcannot be stopped by administrative measures. There is an urgent need to regulate it by relying onscientific evidence as well as by considering human,economic and political factors. In [...]
The future of individualization in Europe: Changing configurations in employment and governance
The accelerated individualization brings immense promises for innovations in technological development, for improvement of the economic and political organization and for creativity in the cultural life of European societies. The expected changes will most probably liberate individuals from constraints in their personal development and realization. Simultaneously, individualization brings about new complexities, uncertainties and controversies. S…
Upgrading Employability of Unemployed as Constructive Individualization
Unemployment is the major barrier hindering constructive individualization in European societies. The upgrading of the employability of unemployed is an efficient mechanism for reducing destructive impacts of unemployment on individuals and society. The upgrading can be achieved both on the “supply” and the “demand” side of the labor market. How can the upgrading of employability of unemployed be facilitated in order to increase their chances for…
State Functions and Media Politics: Case Study on Print Media in Slovenia
What is specific in the efforts of the Slovenian state institutions to handle the current economic, political, and cultural crisis in the country? The answer is searched for in the media representations of the building of a new government in February 2012. The analysis is focused on five major functions of modern states: security provision, regulation of macro-economy, administration, reproduction of human resources, and environmental protection.…
"Introduction to "Challenges of individualisation
Challenges of individualisation
Global Trends and Regional Development
Radical Nationalism in Contemporary Bulgaria
The striking electoral success of the Ataka party in 2005 and 2009 challenges the scholarly analysis and the political decision-making alike. Do really extreme right wing ideology and policies have fertile ground in Bulgaria? If yes, why is this the case and to what extent? Combining historical and social-structural approaches, the author concludes that the appearance of the Ataka party and its success have been well prepared by the specifics of …
The Capital City in the Context of accelerated Individualization. Reflections on the Bulgarian Experience
Privatization and competitive politics brought about accelerated individualization in Bulgarian society. Both the constructive and destructive effects of individualization are particularly concentrated in the country's capital city. It rapidly shifted its economic structure from industry to services and re-oriented its territorial morphology from north-west to south-east. These changes mostly took place in a spontaneous and often anomic way thus …
Die Entwicklung des soziologischen Wissens
Advances in Sociological Knowledge; Over Half a Century
Advances in sociological knowledge: Over half a century
Breakthroughs, fashions and continuity in developing sociological knowledge - The global shift and its consequences for Sociology - About the Post-Industrial Society - The social role of knowledge - Role-Set Theory and Modernity: Transforming experience - Contributions of Rational Choice Theory to modern Sociology: An Overview - Social indicators and quality of life research: Background, achievements and current trends - Social Capital as an usef…
Global Trends and Eastern European Societal Transformations
We give a review of Eastern European transformations, which differs from the expectations typical at the beginning of the 1990s. These transformations are tensionridden adjustments to global trends. They include transfer and localadaptation of normative and institutional patterns from the Western world. Four global trends and their controversial effects in the region are discussed. First, instrumental activism requires efficiency of decisions and…
Transformation and Anomie: Problems of Quality of Life in Bulgaria
Four Global Trends: Rise and Limitations
The world seems to be rushing into the state of a global risk-society. Is the diagnosis correct? What are the causes and reasons of the current tensions? What are the prospects? Four global trends are assumed to penetrate the new constellations of cooperation and conflict. The spreading of instrumental activism has its roots in the 'conquer and dominate' philosophy of modern industrialism. It is trapped by its own expansion. Individualization is …
Der Übergang zur Demokratie: Trends und Widersprüche der gesellschaftlichen Rationalisierung
Internationalization of Sociology: The Unfinished Agenda
National Traditions in Sociology
National Sociological Traditions and Internationalization of Sociology - Nikolai Genov Australian Sociology and Its Historical Environment - Diane Austin-Broos Canadian Sociology on the World Scene - David Millett The Development of Sociology in Columbia - Gonzalo Catano and Gabriel Restrepo The Development of Sociology in France after 1945 - Alain Drouard Sociology in the German Democratic Republic - Rudi Weidig Sociology in the Federal Republic…
Transformation and Anomie: Problems of Quality of Life in Bulgaria
Radical Nationalism in Contemporary Bulgaria
The striking electoral success of the Ataka party in 2005 and 2009 challenges the scholarly analysis and the political decision-making alike. Do really extreme right wing ideology and policies have fertile ground in Bulgaria? If yes, why is this the case and to what extent? Combining historical and social-structural approaches, the author concludes that the appearance of the Ataka party and its success have been well prepared by the specifics of …
The future of individualization in Europe: Changing configurations in employment and governance
The accelerated individualization brings immense promises for innovations in technological development, for improvement of the economic and political organization and for creativity in the cultural life of European societies. The expected changes will most probably liberate individuals from constraints in their personal development and realization. Simultaneously, individualization brings about new complexities, uncertainties and controversies. S…
Challenges of individualisation
Towards a paradigmatic enhancement of sociology
This article is a continuation of the debate on the paradigmatic foundations of sociology. The argument reads that any negligence towards the rising number of would-be sociological paradigms stands as counter-productive to sociological theorizing and empirical research. The guiding idea here is that while sociology is a multi-paradigmatic discipline, efforts should still be made to develop paradigmatic syntheses. The suggested direction for resol…
Sociology in a Society in Transition
The Rationality of Social Action and Social Systems
Rationality as both key to and highly problematic in modern social organisation is a central topic for sociology which veers between analysing it at the levels of social action and social system. A Marxist interactionist approach shows that analysis of action must lead to concern for social relations and processes. Both the rationality and irrationality of social subjects are variously limited or expanded by the social environment, which in turn …
National Traditions in Sociology
National Sociological Traditions and Internationalization of Sociology - Nikolai Genov Australian Sociology and Its Historical Environment - Diane Austin-Broos Canadian Sociology on the World Scene - David Millett The Development of Sociology in Columbia - Gonzalo Catano and Gabriel Restrepo The Development of Sociology in France after 1945 - Alain Drouard Sociology in the German Democratic Republic - Rudi Weidig Sociology in the Federal Republic…
Der Übergang zur Demokratie: Trends und Widersprüche der gesellschaftlichen Rationalisierung
Sociology in a Society in Transition
National Traditions in Sociology
Towards a Multidimensional Concept of Rationality: The Sociological Perspective
In the works of Max Weber alone, one may come across more than a dozen meanings of rational. The term can be easily replaced by terms like logical consistency, empirical proof, critical attitude, effectiveness, optimization, and many others (Bunge 1987). Does the abundance of connotations imply that there is no real problem of rationality? Is it in fact meaningless to speak about the concept of rationality? Should we prefer to avoid the term? Thi…
Internationalization of Sociology: The Unfinished Agenda
Four Global Trends: Rise and Limitations
The world seems to be rushing into the state of a global risk-society. Is the diagnosis correct? What are the causes and reasons of the current tensions? What are the prospects? Four global trends are assumed to penetrate the new constellations of cooperation and conflict. The spreading of instrumental activism has its roots in the 'conquer and dominate' philosophy of modern industrialism. It is trapped by its own expansion. Individualization is …
Transformation and Anomie: Problems of Quality of Life in Bulgaria
Global Trends and Eastern European Societal Transformations
We give a review of Eastern European transformations, which differs from the expectations typical at the beginning of the 1990s. These transformations are tensionridden adjustments to global trends. They include transfer and localadaptation of normative and institutional patterns from the Western world. Four global trends and their controversial effects in the region are discussed. First, instrumental activism requires efficiency of decisions and…
Advances in Sociological Knowledge; Over Half a Century
Advances in sociological knowledge: Over half a century
Breakthroughs, fashions and continuity in developing sociological knowledge - The global shift and its consequences for Sociology - About the Post-Industrial Society - The social role of knowledge - Role-Set Theory and Modernity: Transforming experience - Contributions of Rational Choice Theory to modern Sociology: An Overview - Social indicators and quality of life research: Background, achievements and current trends - Social Capital as an usef…
Die Entwicklung des soziologischen Wissens
The Capital City in the Context of accelerated Individualization. Reflections on the Bulgarian Experience
Privatization and competitive politics brought about accelerated individualization in Bulgarian society. Both the constructive and destructive effects of individualization are particularly concentrated in the country's capital city. It rapidly shifted its economic structure from industry to services and re-oriented its territorial morphology from north-west to south-east. These changes mostly took place in a spontaneous and often anomic way thus …
Radical Nationalism in Contemporary Bulgaria
The striking electoral success of the Ataka party in 2005 and 2009 challenges the scholarly analysis and the political decision-making alike. Do really extreme right wing ideology and policies have fertile ground in Bulgaria? If yes, why is this the case and to what extent? Combining historical and social-structural approaches, the author concludes that the appearance of the Ataka party and its success have been well prepared by the specifics of …
Global Trends and Regional Development
State Functions and Media Politics: Case Study on Print Media in Slovenia
What is specific in the efforts of the Slovenian state institutions to handle the current economic, political, and cultural crisis in the country? The answer is searched for in the media representations of the building of a new government in February 2012. The analysis is focused on five major functions of modern states: security provision, regulation of macro-economy, administration, reproduction of human resources, and environmental protection.…
"Introduction to "Challenges of individualisation
Challenges of individualisation
The future of individualization in Europe: Changing configurations in employment and governance
The accelerated individualization brings immense promises for innovations in technological development, for improvement of the economic and political organization and for creativity in the cultural life of European societies. The expected changes will most probably liberate individuals from constraints in their personal development and realization. Simultaneously, individualization brings about new complexities, uncertainties and controversies. S…
Upgrading Employability of Unemployed as Constructive Individualization
Unemployment is the major barrier hindering constructive individualization in European societies. The upgrading of the employability of unemployed is an efficient mechanism for reducing destructive impacts of unemployment on individuals and society. The upgrading can be achieved both on the “supply” and the “demand” side of the labor market. How can the upgrading of employability of unemployed be facilitated in order to increase their chances for…
The European Union and its eastern partnership: Explanation and regulation of migration flows
The cross-border migration from the six countries of the Eastern Partnership of the European Union(Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine) to the Union is accelerating. The processcannot be stopped by administrative measures. There is an urgent need to regulate it by relying onscientific evidence as well as by considering human,economic and political factors. In [...]
Does Europeanization Foster Constructive Individualization
This paper aims at explaining changes in the conditions for individualization in ten central and eastern European ( cee ) countries after they have joined the European Union in 2004 and 2007. The expected changes had to follow the transfer of the eu ’s acquis communautaire to the cee and the accompanying Europeanization understood as upgrading of governance. Indicators used in longitudinal studies are identified in order to test the assumption. S…
Challenges of Individualization
This book critically engages with a series of provocative questions that ask: Why are contemporary societies so dependent on constructive and destructive effects of individualization? Is this phenomenon only related to the 'second' or 'late' modernity? Can the concept of individualization be productively used for developing a sociological diagnosis of our time? The innovative answers suggested in this book are focused on two types of challenges a…
Multi-paradigmatic sociology: Debates present and perennial
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (17 works) · Social science (15 works) · Epistemology (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Politics (9 works) · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice (8 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Political economy (8 works)