A History of Macedonian Sociology: In Quest for Identity (Sociology Transformed)

This book is the first English-language monograph about the institutional development of sociology in (North) Macedonia. It maps and discusses the contexts, goals, and merits of the pioneering attempts for sociological research in the interwar period, early post-war educational and publishing politics, the institutionalization of sociology in socialist Macedonia in the course of the 1960s, its cross-national exchanges, as well as its major trajectories and debates up until the present days. Against the backgrounds of the political and intellectual histories of Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav Macedonia, it argues that the development of the sociological activities, themes, and arguments is entwined with the Macedonian nation- and state-building. List of Maps Acknowledgments Author’s Note Contents About the Author Abbreviations Chapter 1: Introduction: In Quest for Identity Study Overview “Proto-Sociologists” Interwar Skopje Beyond Skopje References Chapter 2: Walking a Fine Line: The Skopje University in the Early Post-War Period (1945–1950s) The Main Road The Detours References Chapter 3: The Leap Forward: The Benefits and Challenges of the Institutionalization of Macedonian Sociology (1960s–Early 1970s) The First Attempts The Skopje Social Survey (1964–1965) The Institute for Sociological, Political and Juridical Research (1965) Assuming a Label References Chapter 4: The Voices of the Double-Periphery: The Crisis Years and the Inertia of Macedonian Sociology (1970s–1980s) The Question of the Profile “Deprovincialization” References Chapter 5: A New Beginning, Anew: Macedonian Sociology in a New Era (1990s–2020s) The New Map The Multiple Facets of a Multicultural Democracy References Chapter 6: Conclusion A Chronology of Major Events (Twentieth–Twenty-First Century) Index