Compressed Modernity or Elusive Modernity?

Abstract

The publication of professor Chang’s book The Logic of Compressed Modernity is reassuring for those researchers who are interested in studies of modern societies and modernization. These researchers may often feel discouraged for the concepts of modernization and modernity fell out of fashion in mainstream sociology and especially political science. However, both concepts are still in demand in many regions with so called “catching-up development” including post-communist Central and Eastern Europe and China.