The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies

Grażyna Skąpska is Professor of Sociology and Chair in the sociology of norms and organizations at the Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland. She is Vice-President of the International Institute of Sociology.

Annamaria Orla-Bukowska is a social anthropologist at the Jagiellonian University; her general field of research is majority-minority relations. She will be a 2004 Yad Vashem Fellow.

Krzystof Kowalski, Ph.D. (2000), Jagiellonian University, works and teaches in the Centre for European Studies at the Jagiellonian University.

Preface, Grażyna Skąpska

SECTION ONE: THE MORAL FABRIC IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES: TWO PERSPECTIVES

Morality in Contemporary Society, Masamichi Sasaki

Morality in Contemporary Social Theory, Grażyna Skąpska


SECTION TWO: TRUST IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES

Trust: A Cultural Resource,Piotr Sztompka

Some Observations on Problems of Trust in Modern Societies, Shmuel Eisenstadt


SECTION THREE: PROMISES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS: EASTERN EUROPE AFTER COMMUNISM SEEN FROM SYDNEY AND PRAGUE

Parables of Hope and Disappointment, Martin Krygier

Everyday Democracy in the Czech Republic: Disappointments or New Morals in a Time of Neo-Normalization, Jirina Siklova



SECTION FOUR: DIVIDED WORLD – FACES OF INEQUALITIES

Dimensions and Processes of Global Inequalities, Göran Therborn

Postsocialist Transformations and Various Faces of Inequalities in the Divided World,
Pavel Machonin


SECTION FIVE: COPING WITH CORRUPTION

Is a Sociology of Corruption Possible?,Jacek Kurczewski

The Paths of Italian Corruption,Vincenzo Ferrari

Trust-Mistrust in European Democracies, Mattei Dogan


SECTION SIX:THE MORAL SENSE OF MODERNIZATION

The Moral Dimensions and Tensions of Modernity, Shmuel Eisenstadt

Varieties and Transcendence of Modernity, Björn Wittrock

Modernity, Tradition and the Shi`ite Reformation in Contemporary Iran?, Said Amir Arjomand

Literature and the Moral Imagination of Modernity, Sudipta Kaviraj


SECTION SEVEN: TERROR, GENOCIDE, AND VIOLENCE

The De-Civilizing Process, Eliezer Ben Rafael

“Women, children, older people”: Genocide, Warfare, and the Functional Differentiation of Society, Klaus Dammann

Society as a "Morality-Silencing" Force: Primo Levi, Existential Power, and the Concentration Camp, Nigel Rapport

Answers to Atrocities, Nils Christie


AFTERWORD

The Moral Fabric: Diverse Textures in the Postmodern World, Krzysztof Kowalski& Annamaria Orla-Bukowska


List of Editors and Contributors