TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mikołaj Pawlak
PY  - 2018
CY  - Berlin, Germany
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 9783653060447
TI  - Tying Micro and Macro
T2  - What Fills up the Sociological Vacuum?
DO  - 10.3726/978-3-653-06044-7
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1062372
N2  - This study critically discusses the thesis on the sociological vacuum formulated by Stefan Nowak. The author’s aim is to refute the claim that the sociological vacuum is relevant for major social processes occurring in Poland. He presents the sociological vacuum in the context of the debate on micro and macro levels and discusses how the theory of fields and social network analysis is useful to reconcile the micro-macro divide. The book considers the uses of the sociological vacuum in explaining such phenomena as the Solidarność social movement, civil society, social capital, and democracy. In the empirical part, the author confronts the data on identifications with the data on relations and claims that the vacuum is not in the society but it in sociology.
KW  - Social fields, Social capital, Civil society, Social networks, Democracy, Meso level
LA  - English
ER  -