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1. Community and the Long Shadow of the Analytic: Rieffian Pessimism in Social Thought

Author

Peter McMylor

Subjects
Philip Rieff, Richard Sennett, Christopher Lasch, community, analytic attitude, Marx, Freud, Social Sciences
Abstract

This paper sets out to explore the thinking and the direct and often indirect influence of the social theorist Philip Rieff on later generations of social theorists, especially in regard to the key sociological concept of community. It is argued that the work of this culturally-conservative social theorist has had a powerful, if somewhat shadowy, influence on such key radical critics of modern societies such as Christopher Lasch and Richard Sennett, revealing the need to acknowledge the significant resources of a Rieffian cultural sociology for critical thought.

Published
2015
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5. Family business in Russia: the path to middle class?

Author

Peter McMylor, Rosemary Mellor, and Nonna Barkhatova

Subjects
Male, Entrepreneurship, Social stability, Property (philosophy), Middle class, Sociology and Political Science, Family business, media_common.quotation_subject, Social change, Commerce, Social mobility, Social class, Russia, Sex Factors, Social Class, Economy, Humans, Family, Female, Sociology, Social Change, media_common
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The paper seeks to explore via a series of interview-based case studies aspects of the emergence of an entrepreneurial middle-class in Russia. The paper notes the origins of those studied in the professional or highly skilled workers in the former Soviet Union. The paper reveals the complexity and fragility of the circumstances of these entrepreneurs and suggests that commentary in both Russia and the West that pins its hopes for social stability on the emergence of a new property owning middle class in Russia are, at best, premature.

Published
2001
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