The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies (Annals of the International Institute of Sociology. New Series, V. 9)

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
SECTION ONE: THE MORAL FABRIC OF CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES: TWO PERSPECTIVES......Page 11
Morality in Contemporary Society......Page 13
The Moral Fabric in Contemporary Societies: Some Remarks on the Paradigm Shift in Sociological Theory......Page 37
SECTION TWO: TRUST IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETIES......Page 55
Trust: A Cultural Resource......Page 57
Some Observations on Problems of Trust in Modern Societies: Construction of Trust, Collective Identity, and the Fragility and Continuity of Democratic Regimes......Page 77
SECTION THREE: PROMISES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS: EASTERN EUROPE AFTER COMMUNISM SEEN FROM WITHOUT AND WITHIN......Page 93
Parables of Hope and Disappointment......Page 95
Everyday Democracy in the Czech Republic: Disappointments or New Morals in a Time of Neo-Normalization......Page 103
The Genealogical Search Initiative and Its Soviet Legacy......Page 113
SECTION FOUR: DIVIDED WORLD—FACES OF INEQUALITIES......Page 127
Dimensions and Processes of Global Inequalities......Page 129
Postsocialist Transformations and Various Faces of Inequalities in the Divided World......Page 153
SECTION FIVE: COPING WITH CORRUPTION......Page 165
Is a Sociology of Corruption Possible?......Page 167
The Paths of Italian Corruption......Page 175
Trust-Mistrust in European Democracies......Page 185
SECTION SIX: THE MORAL SENSE OF MODERNIZATION......Page 211
The Moral Dimensions and Tensions of Modernity......Page 213
The Cultural Constitution of Modernity......Page 229
Modernity, Tradition and the Shi'ite Reformation in Contemporary Iran......Page 251
Literature and the Moral Imagination of Modernity......Page 273
SECTION SEVEN: TERROR, GENOCIDE, AND VIOLENCE......Page 291
The De-Civilizing Process......Page 293
“Women, Children, Older People”: Genocide, Warfare, and the Functional Differentiation of Society......Page 301
Society as a “Morality-Silencing” Force: Primo Levi, Existential Power, and the Concentration Camp......Page 319
Answers to Atrocities......Page 345
AFTERWORD......Page 365
The Moral Fabric: Diverse Textures in the Postmodern World......Page 367
List of Editors and Contributors......Page 385