This book represents the first comprehensive century-long history of the disciplinary
development of sociology in Serbia in English. It provides an overview of the constitution of
sociology as an academic discipline during the interwar period its reinstitutionalization
after World War II in entirely new social circumstances marked by establishment of
self-management socialism in Yugoslavia and finally its development during the turbulent
postsocialist period. Divided into five chapters the focus of the book is on the challenges
that sociology has faced in order to maintain its institutional position gain adequate social
recognition and preserve its professional autonomy. Relying on Bourdieu's concept of the
academic field and Burawoy's typology of Professional Critical Public and Policy sociology
the book seeks to answer the question of how the sociological academic field in Serbia has been
constituted structured and restructured and in which of these roles sociology has dominantly
appeared in different phases of its evolution.
