Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Editor: Leszek Nowak -- Editor’s Introduction / Leszek Nowak -- Historical Materialism and the Visions of Social Development / Andrzej Klawiter -- The Role of Consensus in Social Conflicts / Louis Kriesberg -- Objective Versus Mentalist Conceptions of Social Class: Some Second Thoughts / I.C. Jarvie -- Work and Instrumental Action / Axel Honneth -- Rationality and the Levels of Organization of Society / Piotr Buczkowski -- The Social Division of Labour / Adam Bartoszek, Ewa Bogalska-Czajkowska, Waldemar Czajkowski, and Mandrzej Małkiewicz -- Adaptation, Learning, Praxis / Andrzej Klawiter, Krzystof Łastowski, Leszek Nowak, and Wojciech Patryas -- Adaptation and Competition / Andrzej Klawiter -- On Adaptive and Functional Dependencies / Michał Witkowski -- The Structure and Development of the Society’s modes of Spiritual Production / Krzysztof Niedźwiadek -- The Macro- and Micro-Conflict Structure of the Information- and Knowledge Society / Thomas Söderqvist -- Towards a Non-Hegelian Conception of the “New Class” / Dick Pels -- An Idealizational Model of Capitalist Society / Leszek Nowak -- The Economic Collapse in two Models of Socioeconomic Formation / Grzegorz Tomczak -- Toward a Model of Economic Institutions / Marek Niewiadomski -- The Anatomy of Utopia / Andrzej Falkiewicz -- On the Social Nature of Colonization / Katarzyna Paprzycka and Leszek Nowak.

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