invention of America
... I write this preface in Seville as I edit the lectures. This was the land of the Moors, Muslims until that tragic January 6, 1492, when the Catholic kings occupied Granada, handed over by Boabdil, who was the last sultan to tread upon European soil. At this terminal moment of the Middle Ages, a pres ...
... I write this preface in Seville as I edit the lectures. This was the land of the Moors, Muslims until that tragic January 6, 1492, when the Catholic kings occupied Granada, handed over by Boabdil, who was the last sultan to tread upon European soil. At this terminal moment of the Middle Ages, a pres ...
The critique of methodological nationalism: Theory and history
... contemporary social sciences. Methodological nationalism is generally recognized as a sin, but we all become unintended sinners the very second we try to grasp the nationstate’s fundamental features and the problematic nature of its position in modernity.2 The paradox of the current debate on method ...
... contemporary social sciences. Methodological nationalism is generally recognized as a sin, but we all become unintended sinners the very second we try to grasp the nationstate’s fundamental features and the problematic nature of its position in modernity.2 The paradox of the current debate on method ...
Historical Sociology vs. History - H-Net
... and an essential aspect of early modern political authority. Chapter 2 discusses the mercantile features of Dutch rule, as well as threats to it from different corporations within the Dutch polity and the transformative effect of ruling on the groups that ruled. The story begins after the Dutch Revo ...
... and an essential aspect of early modern political authority. Chapter 2 discusses the mercantile features of Dutch rule, as well as threats to it from different corporations within the Dutch polity and the transformative effect of ruling on the groups that ruled. The story begins after the Dutch Revo ...
Global 4 Syllabus Page 1 230 East 105th Street Kevin McCarthy
... Exam in June. Second, as students you will move more toward independent work, so we will begin to take the training wheels off! You will be expected to be more involved with your work, to write at greater lengths, provide more detail and analysis, and ask more challenging questions in order to becom ...
... Exam in June. Second, as students you will move more toward independent work, so we will begin to take the training wheels off! You will be expected to be more involved with your work, to write at greater lengths, provide more detail and analysis, and ask more challenging questions in order to becom ...
Book Review: Habermas and Religion
... increased attention in recent years across a wide spectrum of social and political thought. T his key volume is addressed to Habermas’s attempt to re-think the relation between religion and modernity under the conditions of the alleged changed circumstances of the present day that supposedly questio ...
... increased attention in recent years across a wide spectrum of social and political thought. T his key volume is addressed to Habermas’s attempt to re-think the relation between religion and modernity under the conditions of the alleged changed circumstances of the present day that supposedly questio ...
State in Society: Studying How States and
... historical institutionalist "lenses" could enable twenty-first-centurytheorists to see more clearly exactly what makes the modern state modern. I found these essays-apparently Migdal's collected writings spanning two decades-to exhibit uneven quality and insight, and to rely too heavily on anecdotal ...
... historical institutionalist "lenses" could enable twenty-first-centurytheorists to see more clearly exactly what makes the modern state modern. I found these essays-apparently Migdal's collected writings spanning two decades-to exhibit uneven quality and insight, and to rely too heavily on anecdotal ...
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... possible to analyze postmodern operational norms to high-minded conditions through modern lenses, promulgation of first principles. It just as one may apply a postmodern pushes the frontiers of knowledge by sensibility to any kind of social constantly questioning of existing paradigms and inventing ...
... possible to analyze postmodern operational norms to high-minded conditions through modern lenses, promulgation of first principles. It just as one may apply a postmodern pushes the frontiers of knowledge by sensibility to any kind of social constantly questioning of existing paradigms and inventing ...
Woodman, D.
... As with all theories, Beck and Bourdieu’s work contain tensions and are no doubt open to more than one reading. There are differences between the two (for example, Beck’s relatively cognitive biographical subject compared to Bourdieu’s relatively embodied concept of habitus). However, I am wary of h ...
... As with all theories, Beck and Bourdieu’s work contain tensions and are no doubt open to more than one reading. There are differences between the two (for example, Beck’s relatively cognitive biographical subject compared to Bourdieu’s relatively embodied concept of habitus). However, I am wary of h ...
Theory and Racialized Modernity: Du Bois in
... social brokers in the lives of young, poor, urban males. Rios’ work, in contrast, Ralph sees as offering a far richer, socially situated, and more fully humanizing view of similarly poor, urban, minority male youth. Elizabeth Hinton reviews two major books focused on more macro-social and political ...
... social brokers in the lives of young, poor, urban males. Rios’ work, in contrast, Ralph sees as offering a far richer, socially situated, and more fully humanizing view of similarly poor, urban, minority male youth. Elizabeth Hinton reviews two major books focused on more macro-social and political ...
Between Culture an Politics - Revista Estudos PolÃticos
... Atlantic zone. When posited in these terms, this issue raises a number of questions. The first concerns the tenacity of modernist cognitive practices in territories outside the European sphere and the way this overlaps how the ideas are expressed. The second refers to a common feature of these terri ...
... Atlantic zone. When posited in these terms, this issue raises a number of questions. The first concerns the tenacity of modernist cognitive practices in territories outside the European sphere and the way this overlaps how the ideas are expressed. The second refers to a common feature of these terri ...
Traditional and Modern Building Materials
... Within this context, despite the difficulties arising from the imminence of the war, two groups of young architects from Rome and Trieste designed Carbonia, in just a few years creating works of undisputed architectural quality. The first building phase was controlled mostly by the Trieste school t ...
... Within this context, despite the difficulties arising from the imminence of the war, two groups of young architects from Rome and Trieste designed Carbonia, in just a few years creating works of undisputed architectural quality. The first building phase was controlled mostly by the Trieste school t ...
“Crisis of sociology” – and consequences for an adequate
... the twentieth century is open to criticism. It is most uncertain, however, whether a legitimate critique of this theory was bound to lead to a total rejection of theories about vital connections between institutionalized structures and functions necessary for society to survive. The most serious cri ...
... the twentieth century is open to criticism. It is most uncertain, however, whether a legitimate critique of this theory was bound to lead to a total rejection of theories about vital connections between institutionalized structures and functions necessary for society to survive. The most serious cri ...
Theorizing Modernity and Technology
... part of the story that can be told about that technology. It would be like a staging of Wagner’s Parsifal with only the actors on stage, without any settings, costumes and props. In the current specialized academic landscape, modernity is the object of study of modernity theory, and technology is st ...
... part of the story that can be told about that technology. It would be like a staging of Wagner’s Parsifal with only the actors on stage, without any settings, costumes and props. In the current specialized academic landscape, modernity is the object of study of modernity theory, and technology is st ...
Europe and the New World Disorder - internationales literaturfestival
... have made in the past and will make about the future. But what role will Europe play? What will be its response to the worldwide crisis? Paz and Sartre may seem to have spoken early about Europe’s postwar insignificance and incapacity. In the 1940s, Europe, assisted by the U.S., was embarking upon a ...
... have made in the past and will make about the future. But what role will Europe play? What will be its response to the worldwide crisis? Paz and Sartre may seem to have spoken early about Europe’s postwar insignificance and incapacity. In the 1940s, Europe, assisted by the U.S., was embarking upon a ...
syllabus
... Lecturers: Simon Skempton, Dominic Rubin Class teachers: Simon Skempton, Alexandra Tsareva, Dominic Rubin, Alexander Koryagin Course description World Intellectual History is a two semester course which covers the history of the leading intellectual trends and ideas that have had an impact on the de ...
... Lecturers: Simon Skempton, Dominic Rubin Class teachers: Simon Skempton, Alexandra Tsareva, Dominic Rubin, Alexander Koryagin Course description World Intellectual History is a two semester course which covers the history of the leading intellectual trends and ideas that have had an impact on the de ...
The Sociological Contexts of Thich Nhat Hanh`s Teachings
... a move away from sovereign power and towards disciplinary power and biopower. Disciplinary power is exercised over individuals via the generation of self monitoring subjectivities and psychological sciences; and biopower is exercised over populations via the use of statistics and social sciences. Th ...
... a move away from sovereign power and towards disciplinary power and biopower. Disciplinary power is exercised over individuals via the generation of self monitoring subjectivities and psychological sciences; and biopower is exercised over populations via the use of statistics and social sciences. Th ...
Chapter 1 INTRODUCTION: DEVELOPMENT
... Critical work of this kind, Mudimbe believes, may open the way for “the process of refounding and reassuming an interrupted historicity within rep resentations” (183), in other words, the process by which Africans can have greater autonomy over how they are represented and how they can con struct ...
... Critical work of this kind, Mudimbe believes, may open the way for “the process of refounding and reassuming an interrupted historicity within rep resentations” (183), in other words, the process by which Africans can have greater autonomy over how they are represented and how they can con struct ...
introduction to the relationship between modernity and sociology in
... emergence of modernity and foundation of sociology by investigating Emile Durkheim and Max Weber’s studies. Some of the arguments developed by these thinkers towards the process of social change will be analyzed. By focusing on Durkheim and Weber’s studies when dealing with the aforementioned relati ...
... emergence of modernity and foundation of sociology by investigating Emile Durkheim and Max Weber’s studies. Some of the arguments developed by these thinkers towards the process of social change will be analyzed. By focusing on Durkheim and Weber’s studies when dealing with the aforementioned relati ...
Chapter 1
... Everyday Life is Social Life Sociology tries to answer the question ‘how is social life possible?’ This means that it treats society and the way we live our lives within it as a puzzle to be explained. The technique of thinking first in terms of the group (ie of the SOCIAL dimension) and only after ...
... Everyday Life is Social Life Sociology tries to answer the question ‘how is social life possible?’ This means that it treats society and the way we live our lives within it as a puzzle to be explained. The technique of thinking first in terms of the group (ie of the SOCIAL dimension) and only after ...
Neomarxism and Inequality
... From among many Neo-Marxist approaches, several strands of dependency theory as well as the more recent world-systems analysis have tackled the issue of social inequality as one to be analyzed on a global level, thus viewing class struggle as a conflict between bourgeois and proletarian areas in the ...
... From among many Neo-Marxist approaches, several strands of dependency theory as well as the more recent world-systems analysis have tackled the issue of social inequality as one to be analyzed on a global level, thus viewing class struggle as a conflict between bourgeois and proletarian areas in the ...
UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH
... course – please read it carefully and retain for future reference. Firstly, to ensure you are able to grasp the ideas in this course there is a minimum level of reading. The exam questions are based on the assumption that you will have completed the ‘essential readings’ which accompany the lecture a ...
... course – please read it carefully and retain for future reference. Firstly, to ensure you are able to grasp the ideas in this course there is a minimum level of reading. The exam questions are based on the assumption that you will have completed the ‘essential readings’ which accompany the lecture a ...
Animism Volume I Edited by Anselm Franke
... enduring assumptions underlying the old), considering forms of relational knowledge, and, above all, practices different from those predominant in modernity. This distinction between “old” animism and “new” animism, between the animism Western anthropologists conceptualized and what they referred to ...
... enduring assumptions underlying the old), considering forms of relational knowledge, and, above all, practices different from those predominant in modernity. This distinction between “old” animism and “new” animism, between the animism Western anthropologists conceptualized and what they referred to ...
Approaches to Comparative History
... This course explores comparison as a historical method. Although comparative history has not always found favour in the academy, historians always implicitly compare. We will review the intellectual foundations of the comparative approach, consider how comparison has been done, and investigate the a ...
... This course explores comparison as a historical method. Although comparative history has not always found favour in the academy, historians always implicitly compare. We will review the intellectual foundations of the comparative approach, consider how comparison has been done, and investigate the a ...
PDF - ProtoSociology
... lasting structural tendency. Classical sociology has systematized this structural change as a differentiation of action systems, structural differentiation and the emergence of a global world system which itself emerged from evolutionary universals. The theory of modernization was systematized by Am ...
... lasting structural tendency. Classical sociology has systematized this structural change as a differentiation of action systems, structural differentiation and the emergence of a global world system which itself emerged from evolutionary universals. The theory of modernization was systematized by Am ...
Course title: Sociology Class: Freshmen (World economics
... Identify the key criteria by which research is evaluated. Explain what is meant by a research design and how the nature of the research design influences the data that is collected. Identify the characteristics of survey, experimental, comparative and ethnographic research designs? Describe the key ...
... Identify the key criteria by which research is evaluated. Explain what is meant by a research design and how the nature of the research design influences the data that is collected. Identify the characteristics of survey, experimental, comparative and ethnographic research designs? Describe the key ...