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Drawing on historical sociology, transnational histories and Asian traditions, Duara seeks answers to the pressing global issue of environmental sustainability.
Author : Prasenjit Duara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,53 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107082250
Drawing on historical sociology, transnational histories and Asian traditions, Duara seeks answers to the pressing global issue of environmental sustainability.
Author : Vassos Argyrou
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 33,80 MB
Release : 1996-06-13
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0521560950
The subject of Vassos Argyrou's study is modernisation, as reflected in the changing nature of wedding celebrations in Cyprus over two generations from the 1930s to the present day. He argues that modernisation is not a secular, progressive process, that remodels the life of a society, ironing out local differences. Rather, it is a legitimising discourse. It is an idiom which Greek Cypriots employ to represent, and contest, relationships between social classes, old and young, men and women, city folk and villagers. At the same time, by involving modernisation, they are submitting to foreign standards, and accepting the symbolic domination of Europe.
Author : Reinhard Bendix
Publisher :
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 47,93 MB
Release : 1966
Category : Social change
ISBN :
Author : Alasdair MacIntyre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 38,3 MB
Release : 2016-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 110717645X
MacIntyre explores the philosophical, political, and moral issues encountered in understanding what the virtues require in contemporary social contexts.
Author : Stephen J. Blank
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781410200488
Five specialists examine the historical relationship of culture and conflict in various regional societies. The authors use Adda B. Bozeman's theories on conflict and culture as the basis for their analyses of the causes, nature, and conduct of war and conflict in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Sinic Asia (China, Japan, and Vietnam), Latin America, and Africa. Drs. Blank, Lawrence Grinter, Karl P. Magyar, Lewis B. Ware, and Bynum E. Weathers conclude that non-Western cultures and societies do not reject war but look at violence and conflict as a normal and legitimate aspect of sociopolitical behavior.
Author : Donald H. Shively
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 711 pages
File Size : 33,60 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1400869013
Essays on the Iwakura Embassy, the realistic painter Takahashi Yuichi, the educational system, and music, show how the Japanese went about borrowing from the West in the first decades after the Restoration: the formulation of strategies for modernizing and the adaptation of Western models to Meiji culture. In the second half of the volume, the darker side, the pathology of modernization, is seen. The adjustment of the individual and the effects of progressive modernization on culture in an increasingly complex, twentieth-century society are recurring themes. They are illustrated with particular intensity in the experience of such writers as Natsume Soseki and Kobayashi Hideo, in the thought of Nishida Kitaro, and in the millenarian aspects of the new religions. Originally published in 1971. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Hemant Shah
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 46,11 MB
Release : 2011-03-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 1439906262
How Daniel Lerner's seminal work contributed to the overall professionalization of communication theory and sociology.
Author : Don S. Browning
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 48,42 MB
Release : 2003-03-20
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780802811127
The processes of modernization and globalization promise more wealth and health for many people. But they are also a threat to the stability and quality of marriage and family life. This new book -- at once sobering and constructive -- looks at the impact of these processes on marriage and asks what Christianity, in cooperation with other religions, can do to strengthen married life today. Among the deleterious effects of modernization and globalization on marriage are a worldwide drift of men away from the responsibility of parenthood and the tendency of mothers too readily to take on the task of childrearing alone. After looking at recent research on these and other problems, Don Browning suggests that the cure for modern marital disruption entails reforming and reconstructing the institution of marriage while also nurturing relevant forms of social support. Yet the effort to initiate a "world marriage revival" requires a complex cultural work, and Browning explores the key contributions that the religions of the world must make for such an effort to be successful.
Author : Chekki
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 47,59 MB
Release : 2023-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 900466646X
Author : Andreas Reckwitz
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 50,82 MB
Release : 2021-06-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509545719
We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion. It is only now that we can see clearly the real scope and structure of the profound shifts that Western societies have undergone over the last 30 years. Classical industrial society has been transformed into a late-modern society that is molded by polarization and paradoxes. The pervasive singularization of the social, the orientation toward the unique and exceptional, generates systematic asymmetries and disparities, and hence progress and unease go hand in hand. Reckwitz examines this dual structure of singularization and polarization as it plays itself out in the different sectors of our societies and, in so doing, he outlines the central structural features of the present: the new class society, the characteristics of a postindustrial economy, the conflict about culture and identity, the exhaustion of the self resulting from the imperative to seek authentic fulfillment, and the political crisis of liberalism. Building on his path-breaking work The Society of Singularities, this new book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with the great social and political issues of our time.