Rok 2018

• Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money and the Modernization Paradigm

  Publikacja

  • A. Karalus

  - Polish Sociological Review - Rok 2018

  This article examines Georg Simmel’s contribution to the understanding of how money functions in modern society, mainly scrutinizing his most important work on that topic, The Philosophy of Money, in the context of modernization theories. Modernization theories, as developed (most notably) by Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Elias, attempted to explain the transition from feudalism and a closed agrarian economy to capitalism and industrial...

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Rok 2009

• The power of silence? opinion contagion and the surprise of the polish 2005 parlamentary and presidential elections

  Publikacja

  • E. Bartha
  • J. Wolszczak-Derlacz

  - Polish Sociological Review - Rok 2009

  This paper investigates opinion contagion in collective behaviour using threshold model (Granovetter (1978), Krassa(1988)). The theoretical background is the spiral of silence concept developed by Noelle-Neumann (1974), arguing that people only assert their opinions if they perceive a minimal support from a relevant proportion of others. We apply the model to explain the dispersion between pre-elections preferences and the final...

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