This book is the first English-language monograph about the institutional development of sociology in (North) Macedonia. It maps and discusses the contexts, goals, and merits of the pioneering attempts for sociological research in the interwar period, early post-war educational and publishing politics, the institutionalization of sociology in socialist Macedonia in the course of the 1960s, its cross-national exchanges, as well as its major trajectories and debates up until the present days. Against the backgrounds of the political and intellectual histories of Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav Macedonia, it argues that the development of the sociological activities, themes, and arguments is entwined with the Macedonian nation- and state-building.

First book-length history of the Macedonian sociology in any language Traces its development in different political constellations and links it with the Macedonian nation and state-building Provides exclusive insight into heretofore unpublished materials

Autorentext

Naum Trajanovski, an adjunct at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw, holds a PhD in sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the past few years, he coordinated a research project about the history of the social survey in post-earthquake Skopje (1964-65) and authored and edited books about the Macedonian and Balkan sociology and politics of memory.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: In Quest for Identity.- 2. Walking a Fine Line: The Skopje University in the Early Post-War Period (19451950s).- 3. The Leap Forward: The Benefits and Challenges of the Institutionalization of Macedonian Sociology (1960sEarly 1970s).- 4. The Voices of the Double-Periphery: The Crisis Years and the Inertia of Macedonian Sociology (1970s1980s).- 5. A New Beginning, Anew: The Macedonian Sociology in a New Era (1990s2010s).- 6. Conclusion.