A History of Macedonian Sociology: In Quest for Identity

This book is the first English-language monograph about the institutional development of sociology in (North) Macedonia. It maps and discusses the contexts, goals, and merits of the pioneering attempts for sociological research in the interwar period, early post-war educational and publishing politics, the institutionalization of sociology in socialist Macedonia in the course of the 1960s, its cross-national exchanges, as well as its major trajectories and debates up until the present days. Against the backgrounds of the political and intellectual histories of Yugoslav and post-Yugoslav Macedonia, it argues that the development of the sociological activities, themes, and arguments is entwined with the Macedonian nation- and state-building.

Naum Trajanovski is an assistant at the Faculty of Sociology at the University of Warsaw and holds a PhD in sociology from the Polish Academy of Sciences. In the past few years, he coordinated a research project about the history of the social survey in post-earthquake Skopje (1964-65) and authored and edited books about the Macedonian and Balkan sociology and politics of memory.