Theory European Journal of Social
... supposed to contribute to the reconstruction of social theory from within social theory itself. Methodological nationalism remains an ill-defined term so further analysis of these different arguments may help us arrive at a clearer conception of what is actually meant by it. All these claims accept, ...
... supposed to contribute to the reconstruction of social theory from within social theory itself. Methodological nationalism remains an ill-defined term so further analysis of these different arguments may help us arrive at a clearer conception of what is actually meant by it. All these claims accept, ...
A Sociology of Modernity
... This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of an historical account of social transformations over the past two centuries, focusing on Western Europe, but also looking at the USA and at Soviet socialism as distinct variants of modernity. A fundamental ambivalence of modernity is captured by ...
... This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of an historical account of social transformations over the past two centuries, focusing on Western Europe, but also looking at the USA and at Soviet socialism as distinct variants of modernity. A fundamental ambivalence of modernity is captured by ...
Max Weber
... Weber’s arguments regarding rationalization are exemplified in his studies of religion and capitalism. These sophisticated and voluminous studies inquire into the ways in which religious ideas, the spirit of capitalism, and capitalism as an economic system, are interrelated. In short, according to W ...
... Weber’s arguments regarding rationalization are exemplified in his studies of religion and capitalism. These sophisticated and voluminous studies inquire into the ways in which religious ideas, the spirit of capitalism, and capitalism as an economic system, are interrelated. In short, according to W ...
The Production of Mobilities
... Movement is made up of time and space. It is the spatialization of time and temporalization of space. Any consideration ofmovement (and mobil ity) that does not take time and space into account is missing an impor tant facet. Time and space, as Kant reminded us, are the fundamental axes around whi ...
... Movement is made up of time and space. It is the spatialization of time and temporalization of space. Any consideration ofmovement (and mobil ity) that does not take time and space into account is missing an impor tant facet. Time and space, as Kant reminded us, are the fundamental axes around whi ...
Modern World History
... • 16. C. 4a (W): Describe the growing dominance of American and European capitalism and their institutions after 1500. • 16. C. 4c (W): Describe the impact of key individuals/ideas from 1500 to the present. • 16. D. 4 (W): Identify significant events and developments since 1500 that persist today. • ...
... • 16. C. 4a (W): Describe the growing dominance of American and European capitalism and their institutions after 1500. • 16. C. 4c (W): Describe the impact of key individuals/ideas from 1500 to the present. • 16. D. 4 (W): Identify significant events and developments since 1500 that persist today. • ...
Modern World History Honors
... • 16. C. 4a (W): Describe the growing dominance of American and European capitalism and their institutions after 1500. • 16. C. 4c (W): Describe the impact of key individuals/ideas from 1500 to the present. • 16. D. 4 (W): Identify significant events and developments since 1500 that persist today. • ...
... • 16. C. 4a (W): Describe the growing dominance of American and European capitalism and their institutions after 1500. • 16. C. 4c (W): Describe the impact of key individuals/ideas from 1500 to the present. • 16. D. 4 (W): Identify significant events and developments since 1500 that persist today. • ...
Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political
... and postructuralism as epistemological projects are caught within the Western canon reproducing within its domains of thought and practice a particular form of coloniality of power/knowledge. However, what I have said about the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group applies to the paradigms of polit ...
... and postructuralism as epistemological projects are caught within the Western canon reproducing within its domains of thought and practice a particular form of coloniality of power/knowledge. However, what I have said about the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group applies to the paradigms of polit ...
Decolonizing Post-Colonial Studies and Paradigms of Political
... and postructuralism as epistemological projects are caught within the Western canon reproducing within its domains of thought and practice a particular form of coloniality of power/knowledge. However, what I have said about the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group applies to the paradigms of polit ...
... and postructuralism as epistemological projects are caught within the Western canon reproducing within its domains of thought and practice a particular form of coloniality of power/knowledge. However, what I have said about the Latin American Subaltern Studies Group applies to the paradigms of polit ...
Registration Form - Ethnographic and Folk Culture Society
... Asia is of specific concern to us because of continuously evolving social reality and the above changing character of the political processes. In light of this, the present conference would like to find answers and solutions to various issues pertaining to politics, society and culture in South Asia ...
... Asia is of specific concern to us because of continuously evolving social reality and the above changing character of the political processes. In light of this, the present conference would like to find answers and solutions to various issues pertaining to politics, society and culture in South Asia ...
Membership Form - The Ethnographic and folk culture society is a
... International Conference: Politics, Society and Culture in South Asia Concept Note: Politics, society and culture have been crucial to Sociological and social anthropological researches. Today the world is under going through some what a difficult period of transition. In fact, there have been many ...
... International Conference: Politics, Society and Culture in South Asia Concept Note: Politics, society and culture have been crucial to Sociological and social anthropological researches. Today the world is under going through some what a difficult period of transition. In fact, there have been many ...
Open Access version via Utrecht University Repository
... Austrian-born American sociologist and supporter of the secularization theory, Peter L. Berger retracted his earlier statements on the validity of the theory of secularization because the evidence simply did not support the thesis (Green 10). Berger was not the only sociologist that came to this con ...
... Austrian-born American sociologist and supporter of the secularization theory, Peter L. Berger retracted his earlier statements on the validity of the theory of secularization because the evidence simply did not support the thesis (Green 10). Berger was not the only sociologist that came to this con ...
The two very different views of Durkheim and Simmel`s sociology is
... Introducing Social Theory, authors Pip Jones, Liz Bradbury, and Shaun Le Boutillier state that the idea of modernity originated as an account of the kinds on institutions, ideas, and behaviors that came out of the decline of medieval society in Europe (23). The authors make the point that seeds of m ...
... Introducing Social Theory, authors Pip Jones, Liz Bradbury, and Shaun Le Boutillier state that the idea of modernity originated as an account of the kinds on institutions, ideas, and behaviors that came out of the decline of medieval society in Europe (23). The authors make the point that seeds of m ...
Social change and progress in the sociology of Robert Nisbet
... Augustine is of course a major player in this narrative, but Nisbet (1980: 140-5) credits above all Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) for this transition. Bossuet’s Discourse on Universal History, written as it was from a Catholic perspective, laid the ground for most of the traits that have since ...
... Augustine is of course a major player in this narrative, but Nisbet (1980: 140-5) credits above all Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet (1627-1704) for this transition. Bossuet’s Discourse on Universal History, written as it was from a Catholic perspective, laid the ground for most of the traits that have since ...
lastjudg
... to urge it along as an open-ended theoretical-practical process, is the challenge faced by a philosophy of history in the Other modernity. Artificial life is anthropomorphic, but we do not produce it from nothing, nor is it a matter of some powerful other that stands opposed to us as a higher phase ...
... to urge it along as an open-ended theoretical-practical process, is the challenge faced by a philosophy of history in the Other modernity. Artificial life is anthropomorphic, but we do not produce it from nothing, nor is it a matter of some powerful other that stands opposed to us as a higher phase ...
5. Change is Central to Sociology
... revolutions: the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Sociology approaches the question of change at a number of different levels, and major theoretical traditions can be demarcated in terms of their conceptions of change, particularly with respect to their interpretations of the origins ...
... revolutions: the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution. Sociology approaches the question of change at a number of different levels, and major theoretical traditions can be demarcated in terms of their conceptions of change, particularly with respect to their interpretations of the origins ...
Container Model - European International Studies Association
... describe as ‘globalization’ or ‘globalisations’ and ‘migration’ and the mobilities associated with those terms are integral to the geo-historical transformative nature of modernity. Even though modernity as an historical age is generally understood to be a stage or phase in Western civilization mark ...
... describe as ‘globalization’ or ‘globalisations’ and ‘migration’ and the mobilities associated with those terms are integral to the geo-historical transformative nature of modernity. Even though modernity as an historical age is generally understood to be a stage or phase in Western civilization mark ...
MODERNITY AGAINST MODERNITY: WANG HUI`S CRITICAL
... inequality. These movements came to an anticlimactic end when the government suppressed the 1989 social movement on 4 June. After this, both governmental policy and the general shape of intellectual life changed dramatically. According to the Shanghai-based literary critic Wang Yuanhua, the years fr ...
... inequality. These movements came to an anticlimactic end when the government suppressed the 1989 social movement on 4 June. After this, both governmental policy and the general shape of intellectual life changed dramatically. According to the Shanghai-based literary critic Wang Yuanhua, the years fr ...
Dewald Crisis - Acsu Buffalo
... environment for capitalism and an eventual technological breakthrough. Though his main concern was social change, Hobsbawm did not neglect political events. The string of rebellions that marked the mid-seventeenth century allowed him to delimit the crisis as a precise historical moment, but they als ...
... environment for capitalism and an eventual technological breakthrough. Though his main concern was social change, Hobsbawm did not neglect political events. The string of rebellions that marked the mid-seventeenth century allowed him to delimit the crisis as a precise historical moment, but they als ...
The Social Construction of Modern American Culture
... them (Sennett, 1978, Part III; 1981). Hence, the original studies of sociology focused on the divisions of labor in society (Durkheim, 1964), social bonding (Tonnies, 1974), the secular analysis of religious behavior (Weber, 1964), the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (Tawney, 1954; Web ...
... them (Sennett, 1978, Part III; 1981). Hence, the original studies of sociology focused on the divisions of labor in society (Durkheim, 1964), social bonding (Tonnies, 1974), the secular analysis of religious behavior (Weber, 1964), the Protestant ethic and the spirit of capitalism (Tawney, 1954; Web ...
The Uses of Art: Contemporary Changes in Cultural Consumption
... the very concepts of this polarization express the values and judgements of the elite. Ollivier makes a similar point when indicating the new rhetoric of openness to cultural diversity as founded on an opposition between the positive and associated terms diverse, open, hybrid, fluid, eclectic, globa ...
... the very concepts of this polarization express the values and judgements of the elite. Ollivier makes a similar point when indicating the new rhetoric of openness to cultural diversity as founded on an opposition between the positive and associated terms diverse, open, hybrid, fluid, eclectic, globa ...
Secularisation and the dictatorship of relativism: Some perplexities
... something changed as he came South. A realisation dawned that he had something say, that this was not a quasi-Nazi, a nasty rottweiler coming to bite the natives, but a kindly sheepdog journeying to round up his flock into pens fit for the nurture of piety. Thousands gathered to hear his speeches, m ...
... something changed as he came South. A realisation dawned that he had something say, that this was not a quasi-Nazi, a nasty rottweiler coming to bite the natives, but a kindly sheepdog journeying to round up his flock into pens fit for the nurture of piety. Thousands gathered to hear his speeches, m ...
Plissart_Xavier,_Tradition_and_Modernity
... Within the more elaborate methods of transmission in particular (initiation rites, political structures) there may be more resentment in front of the intrusion. The consequence will be an attitude of resistance or even rejection of the challenge of diversity. And we will notice that it is particular ...
... Within the more elaborate methods of transmission in particular (initiation rites, political structures) there may be more resentment in front of the intrusion. The consequence will be an attitude of resistance or even rejection of the challenge of diversity. And we will notice that it is particular ...
One World System or Many: Continuity Thesis in World
... the onset of the European Enlightenment, the scientific revolution, and modern industrialization and urbanization over the 19th and 20th centuries, the idea of progress has been a dominant concept in historical and everyday experience. However, this idea of progress, so closely associated with the r ...
... the onset of the European Enlightenment, the scientific revolution, and modern industrialization and urbanization over the 19th and 20th centuries, the idea of progress has been a dominant concept in historical and everyday experience. However, this idea of progress, so closely associated with the r ...
TISS Working Paper The Conceit of Reason the Cunning of History
... truth and reason. Dipesh Chakraborty has described this process as our anxieties about the past or history. (Chakraborty, 2001). The regimes of modernity impose an intricate web of tools and techniques to discipline and normalise the self in order to produce the modern individual as Foucault (1979) ...
... truth and reason. Dipesh Chakraborty has described this process as our anxieties about the past or history. (Chakraborty, 2001). The regimes of modernity impose an intricate web of tools and techniques to discipline and normalise the self in order to produce the modern individual as Foucault (1979) ...
Sociology and international relations: legacies and prospects.
... bound to the “collective conscience” directly, i.e. without forms of institutional mediation. In this understanding, individuals in pre-modern societies can effectively be seen as inorganic matter, hence Durkheim’s use of the concept “mechanical solidarity” to describe the ways in which individuals ...
... bound to the “collective conscience” directly, i.e. without forms of institutional mediation. In this understanding, individuals in pre-modern societies can effectively be seen as inorganic matter, hence Durkheim’s use of the concept “mechanical solidarity” to describe the ways in which individuals ...