Meeting abstract
VIIIth World Congress of Sociology, Toronto, August 19–24, 1974
Antun Petak
; Institut za društvena istraživanja Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Jezuitski trg 4
Abstract
In this critical survey about the work of the VIIIth World Congress of Sociology, the author has first and foremost worked out the principal moments of its organization. He has particularly pointed at the transformation concerning the character of the world congresses of sociologists which have undergone the change from those prevailingly working to those manifest, and the change itself has been caused by an explicit great number of participants, as well as by heterogeneity of its programme.
Particularly paying attention to the theme of the congress »Science and Revolution in Contemporary Societies«, the author of the survey points at the approach to social aspects of science and scientific and technological revolution expressed at the first plenary session. From the short survey of main thoughts brought out by speakers at the first plenary session, it is no doubt evident that we cannot speak of an unic scientific approach. Just a superficial analysis suffices to show that besides the critical attitude of certain sociologists, the appearance of one group of scientists from the West and East is still permeated by an ideological weight. Particular observations were placed on an uncritical thesis about the scientific and technological revolution as a main strategy of the further development of socialism, and transformation of capitalism into socialism. As is being known, this thesis is based on the reduced conception of meaning and relationship between produce forces and produce relationships.
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156398
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Publication date:
30.6.1975.
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