T. Anthony Jones

Models of Socialist Develo p ment

&dquo;socialist&dquo; societies as a general type, and with this transition the study of these societies has gradually been incorporated into the general body of social science concerns. The happy result of this development has been a movement away from seeing socialist societies as unique entities towards seeing them as variants of a more general type, that of industrial society. We now find ourselves faced with an increasingly sophisticated array of analyses, and with an amount and diversity of empirical material which was inconceivable a decade or two ago. A less happy aspect of this development has been the conspicuous absence of sociologists among the contributors. In spite of the fact that the study of socialist societies provides a challenge to the most central concerns of sociology