Vjeran Katunarić passed away

Vjeran Katunarić passed away

Sociologist Vjeran Katunarić, our longtime associate, author of the book Theory in Sociology. The Ideal, the real, the Ideological, the Utopian (2020) and reviewer of numerous books published by TIM Press, died yesterday, October 17, in Zadar at the age of 74. For his merits in cultural policy research, he was awarded the Order of Danica with the figure of Marko Marulić (1999), and he is the recipient of the annual award for science of the Ministry of Science, Education and Sports (2003) and the State Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Field of Social Sciences (2018). He is also the recipient of the „Rudi Supek“ award from the Croatian Sociological Society for the Development of Sociology and the Croatian Sociological Society (2009). Some of the books he published are: The Division of Society (1988), The Theory of Society in the Frankfurt School (1990), Gods, Elites, Nations (1994), Disputed Community (2003), Faces of Culture (2007), Women's Eros and the Civilization of Death (1985 and 2009), The Quest for Liberal-Socialist Democracy and Development (in English, 2018).