ISBN: 0299113647
Godina izdanja: 1988
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

Ivan Szelenyi - Socialist Entrepreneurs: Embourgeoisement in Rural Hungary
University of Wisconsin Press, 1988
320 str.
meki povez
stanje: vrlo dobro

in collaboration with Robert Manchin, Pál Juhász, Bálint Magyar, and Bill Martin

Among the East European nations, Hungary has been noted in recent years for permitting, even encouraging, family entrepreneurship in agriculture. In this highly empirical study, Ivan Szelenyi and his collaborators explore this phenomenon, affording a rare view of the reemergence of private sector activity in a socialist society, and offering new insights into the very origins of capitalism.
In the years since the government relaxed its policy of forced collectivization, approximately ten percent of rural Hungarian families have taken up entrepreneurial opportunities in agriculture. Why they have chosen this course—and why ninety percent of family have chosen to remain in proletarian or cadre positions—are central questions in Szelenyi’s inquiry.
The theory advocated here is one of “interrupted embourgeoisement.” Those people who, during the years of Stalinism, found occupations in which they could successfully resist the dual pressures of proletarianization and cadrefication are the ones now able to reenter the interrupted embourgeoisement trajectory. As a result, the communist “revolution from above” has been challenged by a somewhat unexpected “revolution from below,” in the process producing a socialist mixed economic system that seems to be as different from Soviet—style communism as it is from Western capitalism.

“This is a very, very important work, combining rich primary research by Szelenyi and four colleagues with a major ‘step toward a theory of articulation of a state socialist mixed economy.’ . . . Using surveys from 1972-73 and 1982-84, the authors traced life histories to identify variables that showed why families responded differently to proletarianization, formation of a new working class, or embourgeoisement.”—World Development

Contents
List of Illustrations, Figures and Tables
Preface
INTRODUCTION
Class and social formations: metatheoretical implications of this study
Theory of classes and class formations
Theory of social formations
Theory of social change
Research design and plan of the book
1. FAMILY AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION
The Hungarian case
Socialist countries in the postindustrial epoch
Changes in the extent of family production, 1972-82
Agricultural commodity production within the family enterprise: concentration of production
2. ALTERNATIVE THEORIES OF FAMILY PRODUCTION
The proletarianization theory
The peasant-worker theory
The `interrupted embourgeoisement` theory
3. THE `INTERRUPTED EMBOURGEOISEMENT` THEORY REFORMULATED
Some hypotheses
The changing class map of state socialism: how many destinations?
Life history as mediator of family background
Identifying `parking orbits`
4. THE FOUR DESTINATIONS
An ethnography of household economies
Distinguishing entrepreneurs from peasant-workers
Rural cadre and proletarian households
Toward a typology of peasant-workers and entrepreneurs
5. MEASURING THE FOUR DESTINATIONS
Distribution of the rural population among the four destinations
Developing a sample selection model
6. HISTORICAL CONTINUITY IN EMBOURGEOISEMENT
The effect of family background
The social origins of entrepreneurs, peasant-workers, and proletarians
Retesting the sample selection model
7. BEYOND FAMILY INHERITANCE
The importance of life history for the reemergence of embourgeoisement
Toward a typology of life histories
Retesting the sample selection model
8. CONCLUSIONS
Empirical findings: the interrupted embourgeoisement theory supported
An ironic view of the Third Road
The silent revolution from below: recent changes in East European class structure
APPENDIX A
Methodological notes
APPENDIX B
Variables, means, and standard deviations of variables used in regression models
References
Index

Ivan Szelenyi is distinguished professor in sociology at the graduate school of the City University of New York. Robert Manchin is research associate at the Institute of Sociology, Hungarian Academy of Science. Pál Juhász and Bálint Magyar are research associates at the Institute on Cooperatives, Budapest, Hungary. Bill Martin is lecturer at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.


Nonfiction, Sociology, Economics, Politics, Mađarska