Multi-Faced Transformations: Challenges and Studies

Multi-faceted Social Transformations: Challenges and Studies brings together the proceedings of the 7th Slovenian Social Science Conference, The Challenges of Social Transformations, held in September 2014. It was organized by the School of Advanced Social Studies (SASS), the Slovenian National Committee of the Management of Social Transformations programme (MOST), and the Slovenian National Commission for UNESCO. The multidisciplinary contributions presented here analyse various aspects of the economic, social, and cultural transformations that accompany the contemporary globalized world. The book consists of four sections dealing with particular areas of transformations. These include a range of political, economic and cultural dimensions that are observed from the macro-level, in social systems and structural changes, to the micro-level, in aspects of individuals' lives. The book will be of interest for academics in the field of social sciences, as well as for civil society activists and policy makers. The frames of the transformations are not limited to the European space, and provide a more global perspective.
About the Author: Elena Danilova is Head of Department of the Institute of Sociology at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow. Her research interests lie in the area of social transformations in post-socialist societies. She recently published a series of articles in Russian and international peer-reviewed journals and edited and contributed to books, including Russians and Chinese in Changing Societies: A Comparative Study in Saint-Petersburg and Shanghai at the Beginning of the 21st Century (in Russian). Currently, Danilova is chairing the research network Sociology of Transformations: West and East within the European Sociological Association. Matej Makarovic, PhD, is Professor and Dean of the School of Advanced Social Studies and President of the Slovenian National Committee of the Management of Social Transformations (MOST) Programme of UNESCO. He is a senior researcher in the fields of sociological theory, political sociology, and societal modernization. He was a Visiting Researcher at Waterford Institute of Technology in 2011, and the University of Nevada and Hawaii Pacific University in 2012. He has published a number of books and articles, including Feeling European (Vega Press, 2012, with T. Golob) and Interethnic Relations in a Systemic Context (Lit, 2010, with B. Roncevic). Alina Zubkovych is a PhD student and a Junior Researcher at the School of Advanced Social Studies. Her research focuses on the dynamics of collective memory, museums, and sociocultural transformations in Eastern and Central Europe and the Balkan region. She is also an assistant editor of the peer-reviewed Research in Social Change journal, and was Visiting Fellow at Central European University, Hungary, and the University of Technology, Cyprus.