Theoretical and Empirical Approaches to System Change and Modernization. Introduction (Dominique MARTIN, Wladyslaw W. ADAMSKI, Pavel MACHONIN) ...9 // PART ONE: THEORETICAL APPROACHES // Dominique MARTIN: Modernization in the Crisis: From Talcott Parsons to Jürgen Habermas ...23 // Pavel MACHONIN: Modernization and Social Transformation in the East Central Europe ...45 // Władysław W. ADAMSKI: The Structural Legacy of Socialism and the Dynamics of Post-Socialism ...61 // Miloš HAVELKA, Karel MÜLLER: Institutional Tensions of Radicalized Transformation. An Assessment in the Modernization Perspective ...81 // PART TWO: THE PROCESSES OF STRUCTURAL CHANGE // Milan TUČEK, Valentina HARMÁDYOVÁ: Structural Changes and Social Mobility: the Czech and Slovak Republic in 1988-1995 ...97 // Wojciech ZABOROWSKI: Social Structure in Flux: Old and New Actors ...113 // Krystyna SZAFRANIEC, Władysław W. ADAMSKI: Polish Peasants: Actors of the Transformation or Clients of the Welfare State? ...137 // PART THREE: ACTORS OF INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE // Andrzej RYCHARD: Social Actors and Institutions: Strategies of Adaptation ...151 // Władysław W. ADAMSKI: The Evolution of Acquisitive and Threatend Interests in the Process of Ownership Transformation ...167 // Lumír GATNAR, Bohumil BÚZIK: Preferences and Attitudes Towards the Institutions ...183 // PART FOUR: ATTITUDES AND ASPIRATIONS // Pavel MACHONIN: Actors of Social Transformation and Modernization and Their Attitudes ...201 // Robert ROŠKO: Democratic Citizenship in Slovakia: Comparative Perspective ...217 // Katarzyna PEŁCZYŃSKA-NALIJCZ: Systemic Preferences and Political Attitudes: Changing Trends in 1988-1995 ...229 // Ján BUNČÁK, Milan TUČEK: Life-goals and Strategies of Individuals in the Modernization Process ...239 //
PART FIVE: CASE STUDIES // Barbara GĄCIARZ, Włodzimierz PANKÓW: Transformation of Pohsh Enterprises Principal Actors, Main Social Effects and Forms of Social Integration ...253 // Pavel KUCHAŘ: Attitudes to the Economic Transformation and Modernization of Enterprise ...267 // Fabrice TRAVERSAZ: Modernization Processes: Structural Rupture and Cultural Continuity? ...283 // Florence OSTY, Marc UHALDE: The Social Trajectories of Modernizing French Companies ...299 // Anne-Marie FARMAKIDES: The Modernization of Management and the Implementation of a New Cultural Model ...315 // PART SIX: CONCLUSIONS, REFLECTIONS AND ISSUES FOR FURTHER RESEARCH // Dominique MARTIN: The Enterprise East and West: Toward a Convergence of Modernizing Processes ...327 // Renaud SAINSAULIEU: Modernity of Another Social Company Model ...339 // Włodzimierz PAŃKÓW: Post-communist Society: is it Evolving toward the Post-industrial? ...349 // Władysław W. ADAMSKI, Andrzej RYCHARD: On the Dynamics of System Transformation and its Pohsh Pecuharities ...359 // Pavel MACHONIN: Common Trends and National Specificities ...367