CONTENTS  

Preface               

                                                                                

Introduction                         

                                      

PART I. The Issue  

1. The Dichotomy of "Private" and "Public" as a Theoretical Framework for the Analysis for Social Reality  

by Jan Turowski                                     

                             

2. Scylla or Charybdis: Rethinking the State/Society Dichotomy  

by Stephen Frederick Schneck               

                             

PART II. Family and Neighborhood  

3. The Family: Private or Public

by Leon Dyczewski          

 

4. Family, Society and State in the USA: Some Reflections

by Paul Peachey                                  

                           

5. The Social Structure of Local Rural Communities  in Poland: Present and Future

by Jan Turowski                         

                                      

6. The Renewal and Recovery of Urban Neighborhoods  

by John A. Kromkowski        

 

PART III. Education and Religion  

 

7. The Dialectics of Public and Private in Education and Social Life

by Lech Witkowski                     

                                     

8. Public and Private in the Field of Education  

by George F. McLean               

                                      

9. Religiousness in the Public and Private Lives of Poles

by Wladyslaw Piwowarski             

                                   

10. Voluntary Religion and the State in the United States

by Dean R. Hoge                      

                                       

PART IV. Economics and Politics  

 

11. The Private Versus the Non-Private Sector in the Economy: The Polish Economy in Transition

by Andrzej F. Lulek          

 

12. Obstacles from the Past to Economic Transformation  

by Rafal H. Krawczyk             

                                         

13. The Political Economy of Free Market Reforms in Developing Nations  

by James P. O'Leary                

                                        

14. Toward the Personalization of Political Life  

by J. Kondziela