Social Classes in Post-War Europe

Social classes and values in Europe

Exploiting the analytical potential of the European Social Survey data, this text presents a set of theoretical assumptions and empirical findings concerning class structures, patterns of values and attitudes and the relationship between them. In the first section, a model of analysis is outlined, which relates social dimensions (in this case, classes) with cultural dimensions (in this case, va...

Study on Social Development of Europe after World War II

After World War II, Europe, especially western Europe and northern Europe, gradually stepped onto a path of social development that was different from America. Quite a lot of socialistic new factors came into being in the production relations, class relations, income distribution and superstructure, etc, in these countries, so that the capitalism in Europe presented obvious staggered qualitativ...

Images of disease: science, public policy and health in post-war Europe

Despite its spatial and temporal constraints, this is a book with a wide brief. It collects papers given at a 1998 conference in a series sponsored by the European Commission dealing with science and society, the aim of these being to compare and contrast European experiences and to reflect on international collaboration. The conference title, "images of disease", echoes Charles Rosenberg's for...

Nuclear War in Europe: A Thought Experiment

Post-war biochemistry in Wrocław.

The biochemistry in Wroc3aw was initiated by Professor Tadeusz Baranowski, a prominent coworker of the renowned Polish biochemist Professor Jakub Parnas from Lwów. Professor Baranowski arrived in the largerly destroyed Wroc3aw in May 1945 as a member of a group of scientists responsible for restoration of academic institutions. He became head of the Department of Physiological Chemistry at the ...