The Utopia of Postsocialist Theory and the Ironic View of History in Neoclassical Sociology

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Previous articleNext article No AccessReview SymposiumThe Utopia of Postsocialist Theory and the Ironic View of History in Neoclassical Sociology1Gil Eyal, Iván Szelényi, and Eleanor TownsleyGil EyalUniversity of California, Berkeley Search for more articles by this author , Iván SzelényiYale University Search for more articles by this author , and Eleanor TownsleyMount Holyoke College Search for more articles by this author University of California, BerkeleyYale UniversityMount Holyoke CollegePDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by American Journal of Sociology Volume 106, Number 4January 2001 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/320300 Views: 113Total views on this site Citations: 16Citations are reported from Crossref © 2001 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Daniel Šitera Exploring neoliberal resilience: the transnational politics of austerity in Czechia, Journal of International Relations and Development 24, no.33 (Apr 2021): 781–810.https://doi.org/10.1057/s41268-021-00214-2Peng Lu, Xiaoguang Fan, Fan Fu Profile of the super rich in China: A social space analysis, The British Journal of Sociology 72, no.33 (May 2021): 543–565.https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12848Norbert Petrovici, Cristina Raţ, Anca Simionca, Enikő Vincze Introduction: Racialized Labour of the Dispossessed as an Endemic Feature of Capitalism, (May 2018): 1–38.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76273-9_1Lenka Fendrychová, Petr Jehlička Revealing the hidden geography of alternative food networks: The travelling concept of farmers’ markets, Geoforum 95 (Oct 2018): 1–10.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.06.012Norbert Petrovici Book Review: Dependency and Development. The Political Economy of Romanian Capitalism, Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia 6, no.22 (Jan 2015).https://doi.org/10.1515/subbs-2015-0012Norbert Petrovici Workers and the City: Rethinking the Geographies of Power in Post-socialist Urbanisation, Urban Studies 49, no.1111 (Dec 2011): 2377–2397.https://doi.org/10.1177/0042098011428175Susanne Y. P. Choi and Roman David Lustration Systems and Trust: Evidence from Survey Experiments in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland, American Journal of Sociology 117, no.44 (Jul 2015): 1172–1201.https://doi.org/10.1086/662648Annette M. Kim Unimaginable Change, Journal of the American Planning Association 77, no.44 (Oct 2011): 328–337.https://doi.org/10.1080/01944363.2011.619462Jaeyoun Won Farewell to Socialist Labor in China, (Jan 2009): 185–201.https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230620445_9Ivan Szelenyi A Theory of Transitions, Modern China 34, no.11 (Jan 2008): 165–175.https://doi.org/10.1177/0097700407308133Jeffrey J. Sallaz, Jane Zavisca Bourdieu in American Sociology, 1980–2004, Annual Review of Sociology 33, no.11 (Aug 2007): 21–41.https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.soc.33.040406.131627 Lawrence P. King and Aleksandra Sznajder The State‐Led Transition to Liberal Capitalism: Neoliberal, Organizational, World‐Systems, and Social Structural Explanations of Poland’s Economic Success King and Sznajder, American Journal of Sociology 112, no.33 (Jul 2015): 751–801.https://doi.org/10.1086/507851Gil Eyal, Iván Szélényi, Eleanor Townsley On Irony: An Invitation to Neoclassical Sociology, Thesis Eleven 73, no.11 (Aug 2016): 5–41.https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513603073001002Gil Eyal, Iván Szelényi, Eleanor Townsley Ironie als Methode, Berliner Journal für Soziologie 13, no.11 (Mar 2003): 5–34.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03204081Lawrence King Postcommunist divergence: A comparative analysis of the transition to capitalism in Poland and Russia, Studies in Comparative International Development 37, no.33 (Sep 2002): 3–34.https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02686229Ivan Szelenyi An outline of the social history of socialism or an auto-critique of an auto-critique, Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 19 (Jan 2002): 41–67.https://doi.org/10.1016/S0276-5624(02)80036-1