Social capital is a valuable resource that can be raised and destroyed, and its level in society is path dependent and related to society's "collective memory" of experience with power structures. Social capital is found both on the network as well as society levels, and a relation between these...

Sozialer Wandel ist ein zentrales Thema soziologischen Denkens. Heiko Schrader gibt einen Überblick über die Anfänge der klassischen soziologischen Theoriebildung, widmet sich aber auch verschiedenen Kritiken der etablierten westlichen Modernisierungstheorie. Dabei setzt er unter dem Aspekt...

During the past, the evaluation of the chances of economic transformation and development of Eastern Europe was largely shaped by the view on the modernization and organizational restructuring of large enterprises/combines. Various scholars were sceptical how far these could contribute to a...