A collection of essays by the Bulgarian historian Maria Todorova (known for Imaginary Balkans), compiled especially for the 20th Century Library. Indispensable for understanding post-communist transitions, culture of memory and Balkan studies.
The book is the result of many years of work by editors and collaborators and monitoring and analysis of domestic and foreign research on the impact of the media on children, youth and adults.
A classic work by one of the most influential sociologists of the 20th century, the founder of "figurative" or "process" sociology. The book is a programmatic manifesto against the then dominant structural-functionalist paradigm (Parsons) and pure positiv