Why Sociology Has a Marginal Position in Civic Education in Bulgaria Nationally Specific and/or Universal Trends

dc.creator	Georgi Dimitrov
dc.creator	Elena Stoykova
dc.date	2009-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-07-20T22:16:51Z
dc.date.available	2015-07-20T22:16:51Z
dc.identifier	1611-9665
dc.identifier	1618-5293
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/c513789136c4456ba8918bd214db6d40
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/18691
dc.description	The authors claim that, to an extent, the marginalization is a by-product of relationship among sociology, citizenship education and school education in general. This relationship is pretty complex and problematic because each of the three constituents undergoes a phase of fundamental crisis of axiological and institutional character. The developments in American sociology that exemplifies the state of affairs in the field are taken as point of departure while the Bulgarian case is used just as a magnifying glass to see clearer the triple crises which bring us to the roots of the civilizational transformation experienced today.The moral of the story is that sociology has been marginalized in last decades because its public and academic status won by the previous generation can not be taken for granted. It does not correspond to the pressing demands of the changing world for a different type of sociology. Thus sociology falls easy prey to the academic competitors who follow aggressive strategy and policy of public expansion even in civil education. The particular situation in other countries may be different but these are common general rules of construing sociology. At the end the paper offers some guidelines for transformation of the pattern in which contemporary sociology should be practiced in order to raise its public and civic relevance through refocusing it on sophisticated mediation of public policy and actions of citizens and through new forms of cultural communication.
dc.language	English
dc.language	German
dc.publisher	Bielefeld University
dc.relation	http://www.jsse.org/2009/2009-4/pdf/Dimitrov-et-al-JSSE-4-2009.pdf
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1611-9665
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1618-5293
dc.source	Journal of Social Science Education, Vol 8, Iss 4, Pp 43-56 (2009)
dc.subject	Crisis in sociology
dc.subject	crisis in school education
dc.subject	American sociology
dc.subject	Bulgarian sociology
dc.subject	fights over civic education
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Social sciences (General)
dc.subject	H1-99
dc.subject	Social Sciences
dc.subject	H
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Social sciences (General)
dc.subject	H1-99
dc.subject	Social Sciences
dc.subject	H
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Social sciences (General)
dc.subject	H1-99
dc.subject	Social Sciences
dc.subject	H
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Social sciences (General)
dc.subject	H1-99
dc.subject	Social Sciences
dc.subject	H
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Social sciences (General)
dc.subject	H1-99
dc.subject	Social Sciences
dc.subject	H
dc.title	Why Sociology Has a Marginal Position in Civic Education in Bulgaria Nationally Specific and/or Universal Trends
dc.type	article