A cura di: Luigi Tomasi
Values and post-Soviet Youth.
The Problem of Transition
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9788820493288
Edition: 1a edizione 1995
Publisher code: 1520.251
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This volume offers a sociological, authoritative and detailed analysis of how certain phenomena currently present in Eastern Europe have come about, by interpreting the social changes through a thorough examination of the situation of young people. While the essays in the first part on the whole tend to include both the formation of the new values and their relationship with religion, the essays in the second part have a strongly theoretical base which contributes to our understanding of the concepts of community and nationality. The contributions in the last part highlight the difficulties that young people in the East are encountering in the current process of transition. This is a book which gives us the opportunity of understanding why the change in civilisation which is currently coming about in Europe is far from being a painless one and indeed entails tensions that are typical of a period of transition and which are having repercussions above all on the young people of the nations involved.
Luigi Tomasi (University of Trento). His research concerns "sociological theory", the sociology of "development" and "religion". He has authored or edited numerous works in the area of Sociology of Religion: 7he Young People of Eastern and Western Europe. Ideologies and Prospects (1991); Young People and Religion in Europe. Persistance and Change in Values (1993); The New-Europe and the Value Orientations of Young People. East-West Comparisons (1994); Young People and Religion in Italy (1995). For many years he was a Visiting Scholar at the Committee on Social Thought of the University of Chicago and a Visiting Professor at the University of Phnom Penh. He is currently the Secretary of the "Sociology of Religion" division of the Italian Sociological Association (AIS).
Introduction
Luigi Tomasi (University of Trento - Italy)
Part one
Values and Religion
Morals in communicative processes
Thomas Luckmann (University of Konstanz - Germany) Introduction
1. About values
2. On moral communication in modern society
2. On the social affinity between religion and values. A multidisciplinary consideration
Anthony J. Blasi (Tennessee State University - Usa) Introduction
1. Religion
2. Values in moral acts
2.1. The search for preliminary conceptualizations
2.2. Value theory
2.3. Systematic summary: values
3. Religious consciousness and values
Conclusion
Part two
The values of community and nationality
The value of community
Edward Shils (University of Chicago - Usa)
The significance of nationality
Steven Grosby (Villanova University - Usa)
Part three
The values of Eastern European youth
5. Young people in Lithuania: social conditions and search for new values
Irena Jouzeliuniene (Academy of Sciences, Vilnius - Lithuania)
Introduction
1. Youth's path of life
2. The significances of spheres of life
3. Values of professional work
4. Education values
5. The Search for New Values
6. Conceptualizing democracy and personal freedom
Conclusion
6. Youth in Latvia: identities and mobility in a transitional society
Talis Tisenkopfs (Academy of Sciences, Riga - Larvia)
Introduction
1. Street boy's stories
1.1. Description of life-style
1.2. Disappointment and frustration
1.3. Dreams about the future
1.4. Materialistic orientations
1.5. Dreams versus means
1.6. Factors of social stratification
1.7. Cultural and family background
1.8. Identity crisis
1.9. Are there ways out of street society?
1.9.1. Emigrating
1.9.2. Searching for a job
1.9.3. Becoming lower class
2. Young business people's stories
2.1. Description of life style
2.2. Orientation toward education, career and achievement
2.3. Cultural, family, and social class background
2.4. Constructions of the future
2.5. Self-identities and time
3. Meanings of time in a transitional society
4. Mobility and social differentiation in youth grouping
Conclusion
7. Changes in the value orientation of youth and their social context
Juri Saarniit (University of Tartu - Estonia) Introduction
1. Measurement techniques and main research topics
2. Inter-cohort changes in values hierarchies of Estonian youth
3. Discussion: social context and consequences of changes in value consciousness
Conclusion
8. Changes in the value orientations of Byelorussian youth
Larissa Titarenko (Byelorussian State University Belarus)
Introduction
1. Value orientation in the sphere of work
2. Other value orientations of youth
Conclusion
Changing values: Russian youth in transition
Michael E Chernish (Academy of sciences, Moscow - Russia)
Introduction
1. Work
2. Consumption values
3. Politics
Luigi Tomasi (University of Trento - Italy)
Part one
Values and Religion
Morals in communicative processes
Thomas Luckmann (University of Konstanz - Germany) Introduction
1. About values
2. On moral communication in modern society
2. On the social affinity between religion and values. A multidisciplinary consideration
Anthony J. Blasi (Tennessee State University - Usa) Introduction
1. Religion
2. Values in moral acts
2.1. The search for preliminary conceptualizations
2.2. Value theory
2.3. Systematic summary: values
3. Religious consciousness and values
Conclusion
Part two
The values of community and nationality
The value of community
Edward Shils (University of Chicago - Usa)
The significance of nationality
Steven Grosby (Villanova University - Usa)
Part three
The values of Eastern European youth
5. Young people in Lithuania: social conditions and search for new values
Irena Jouzeliuniene (Academy of Sciences, Vilnius - Lithuania)
Introduction
1. Youth's path of life
2. The significances of spheres of life
3. Values of professional work
4. Education values
5. The Search for New Values
6. Conceptualizing democracy and personal freedom
Conclusion
6. Youth in Latvia: identities and mobility in a transitional society
Talis Tisenkopfs (Academy of Sciences, Riga - Larvia)
Introduction
1. Street boy's stories
1.1. Description of life-style
1.2. Disappointment and frustration
1.3. Dreams about the future
1.4. Materialistic orientations
1.5. Dreams versus means
1.6. Factors of social stratification
1.7. Cultural and family background
1.8. Identity crisis
1.9. Are there ways out of street society?
1.9.1. Emigrating
1.9.2. Searching for a job
1.9.3. Becoming lower class
2. Young business people's stories
2.1. Description of life style
2.2. Orientation toward education, career and achievement
2.3. Cultural, family, and social class background
2.4. Constructions of the future
2.5. Self-identities and time
3. Meanings of time in a transitional society
4. Mobility and social differentiation in youth grouping
Conclusion
7. Changes in the value orientation of youth and their social context
Juri Saarniit (University of Tartu - Estonia) Introduction
1. Measurement techniques and main research topics
2. Inter-cohort changes in values hierarchies of Estonian youth
3. Discussion: social context and consequences of changes in value consciousness
Conclusion
8. Changes in the value orientations of Byelorussian youth
Larissa Titarenko (Byelorussian State University Belarus)
Introduction
1. Value orientation in the sphere of work
2. Other value orientations of youth
Conclusion
Changing values: Russian youth in transition
Michael E Chernish (Academy of sciences, Moscow - Russia)
Introduction
1. Work
2. Consumption values
3. Politics
Contributors: Michael F. Chernish, Steven Grosby, Irena Jouzeliuniene, Thomas Luckmann, Juri Saarniit, Edward Shies, Talis Tisenkopfs, Larissa G. Titarenko
Serie: Sociologia
Subjects: Sociology of Education - Sociology of Political Phenomena
Level: Scholarly Research
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