Intercivilisational Social Theory
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Inter Societal Dynamics
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Author : Jonathan H. Turner
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-04-02
Inter Societal Dynamics written by Jonathan H. Turner and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-02 with Social Science categories.
This book by Jonathan Turner and Anthony Roberts proposes a new theoretical approach for explaining the dynamics of inter-societal systems. The authors argue that inter-societal systems have existed since the beginning of human societies and the dynamics of these systems are a fundamental property of the social universe. However, while world-systems analysis has emphasized this latter point, the authors argue the reluctance to theorize complex abstract models and systems of explanatory propositions on the dynamics driving inter-societal systems hinders scientific explanation of inter-societal dynamics. In this context, the authors critically look at contemporary theorizing and review key theories that have been developed to explain geo-economic, geo-political, and geo-cultural dynamics, from the classic period through present-day world-systems analysis and cliometrics. The book summarizes these theories clearly, emphasizing their strengths and weakness, finally developing a theoretical synthesis through new models and propositions on the dynamics of premodern and modern inter-societal systems. Professor Turner’s decades of experience writing theory books for undergraduates have ensured that this book presents abstract ideas clearly and with examples so that students can understand the arguments. This book is a must-read for all social theory researchers, academics, serious undergraduate students, graduate students, and interested laypersons.
History Of Social Theory In The Light Of Intercivilizational Perspective
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Author : Miri Meynagh
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003-07-01
History Of Social Theory In The Light Of Intercivilizational Perspective written by Miri Meynagh and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-07-01 with Philosophy categories.
Travel through time is in a sense like travel through space to different countries. Exposure to different social theories helps to put our own in perspective, allowing us to see what is distinctive about it and helping to bring our unconscious assumptions to light. Aspects of social life we take for granted take on a different hue against a backdrop of social theories in which they do not appear. Comparing different theories, moreover, is especially striking when they represent different stages in the evolution of our present views. It is a gigantic task to define what social theory is, when one is reminded that there are powerful forces within modernity that attempt to separate philosophy and metaphysics from social theory and the latter from religious thinking altogether. Theorein is defined as "to look at, to behold, to contemplate" a symbolic picture of an ordered whole. Social theory in the sense of a metaphysical philosophical reflection is called the "master science". In the words of Dante Germino social theory is: "That intellectual tradition which affirms the possibility of transcending the sphere of immediate practical concerns and viewing' man's societal existence from a critical perspective." (1967. 7) "Theoretical knowledge is knowledge for its own sake rather than for some utilitarian end, and the bios theoretikos, or theoretic life, because it is most akin to the divine, is the highest form of human existence." (1967. 8-9)
Challenges Of Globalization And Prospects For An Inter Civilizational World Order
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Author : Ino Rossi
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2020-11-24
Challenges Of Globalization And Prospects For An Inter Civilizational World Order written by Ino Rossi and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-24 with Social Science categories.
This is a must-read volume on globalization in which some of the foremost scholars in the field discuss the latest issues. Truly providing a global perspective, it includes authorship and discussions from the Global North and South, and covers the major facets of globalization: cultural, economic, ecological and political. It discusses the historical developments in governance preceding globalization, the diverse theoretical and methodological approaches to globalization, and analyzes underdevelopment, anti-globalization movements, global poverty, global inequality, and the debates on international trade versus protectionism. Finally, the volume looks to the future and provides prospects for inter-civilizational understanding, rapprochement, and global cooperation. This will be of great interest to academics and students of sociology, social anthropology, political science and international relations, economics, social policy, social history, as well as to policy makers.
Debating Civilisations
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Author : Jeremy C. A. Smith
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2017-06-24
Debating Civilisations written by Jeremy C. A. Smith and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-24 with Political Science categories.
This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC) open access license. Debating civilisations offers an up-to-date evaluation of the re-emerging field of civilisational analysis, tracing its main currents and comparing it to rival paradigms such as Marxism, globalisation theory and postcolonial sociology. The book suggests that civilisational analysis offers an alternative approach to understanding globalisation, one that focuses on the dense engagement of societies, cultures, empires and civilisations in human history. Building on Castoriadis’s theory of social imaginaries, it argues that civilisations are best understood as the products of routine contacts and connections carried out by anonymous actors over the course of long periods of time. It illustrates this argument through case studies of modern Japan, the Pacific and post-Conquest Latin America (including the revival of indigenous civilisations), exploring discourses of civilisation outside the West within the context of growing Western imperial power.
Civilization Modernity And Critique
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Author : Ľubomír Dunaj
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2023-05-25
Civilization Modernity And Critique written by Ľubomír Dunaj and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-05-25 with Social Science categories.
Civilization, Modernity, and Critique provides the first comprehensive, cutting-edge engagement with the work of one of the most foundational figures in civilizational analysis: Jóhann P. Árnason. In order to do justice to Árnason’s seminal and wide-ranging contributions to sociology, social theory and history, it brings together distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical contexts. Through a critical, interdisciplinary dialogue, it offers an enrichment and expansion of the methodological, theoretical, and applicative scope of civilizational analysis, by addressing some of the most complex and pressing problems of contemporary global society. A unique and timely contribution to the ongoing task of advancing the project of a critical theory of society, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in historical sociology, critical theory and civilizational analysis.
Social Theory After The Internet
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Author : Ralph Schroeder
language : en
Publisher: UCL Press
Release Date : 2018-01-04
Social Theory After The Internet written by Ralph Schroeder and has been published by UCL Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-04 with Social Science categories.
The internet has fundamentally transformed society in the past 25 years, yet existing theories of mass or interpersonal communication do not work well in understanding a digital world. Nor has this understanding been helped by disciplinary specialization and a continual focus on the latest innovations. Ralph Schroeder takes a longer-term view, synthesizing perspectives and findings from various social science disciplines in four countries: the United States, Sweden, India and China. His comparison highlights, among other observations, that smartphones are in many respects more important than PC-based internet uses. Social Theory after the Internet focuses on everyday uses and effects of the internet, including information seeking and big data, and explains how the internet has gone beyond traditional media in, for example, enabling Donald Trump and Narendra Modi to come to power. Schroeder puts forward a sophisticated theory of the role of the internet, and how both technological and social forces shape its significance. He provides a sweeping and penetrating study, theoretically ambitious and at the same time always empirically grounded.The book will be of great interest to students and scholars of digital media and society, the internet and politics, and the social implications of big data.
Rethinking Civilizational Analysis
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Author : Said Arjomand
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2004-05-19
Rethinking Civilizational Analysis written by Said Arjomand and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-05-19 with Social Science categories.
′At last, a volume on civilization that truly reflects the complexity of multiple civilizations. The wealth of contributions Arjomand and Tiryakian have assembled demonstrates the value of an old concept for understanding the awful dilemmas confronting human kind in the global age. Its thoroughgoing renewal here establishes this book as the essential benchmark for future scholars of civilization′ - Martin Albrow, Founding Editor of International Sociology and author of The Global Age - winner of the European Amalfi Prize, 1997 ′In our tension filled world, many are heralding, and others fearing, a"clash of civilizations." The contributors to this volume provides a healthy and persuasive argument about why this clash need not, and certainly should not, take place. They do so, moreover, not by rejecting the concept of civilization, but by developing a less primordial, homogenous, and essentialist concept of it. An important collection that provides illumination in this sometimes frighteningly dark time′ - Jeffrey Alexander, Professor and Chair of Sociology at Yale University ′The concept of civilization may well replace the notions of globalization and identity as the core component in the vocabulary of 21st century sociology. The authors contribute a great deal to the clarification of fashionable controversies around the "clash of civilizations" and "multiculturalism". They go a long way toward purging the concept of civilization of its ideological overtones, and they suceed admirably in turning it into powerful analytic tool of an emerging fleld of macrosociology, known already as civilizational analysis′ - Piotr Sztompka, President, International Sociological Association Although the concept of ′civilization′ has deep roots in the social sciences, there is an urgent need to re-think it for contemporary times. This book points to an exhaustion in using ′the nation state′ and ′world system′ as the basic macro-units of social analysis because they do not get to grips with the ′soft power′ variable of cultural factors involved in global aspects of development. Also, globalization requires us to reconsider the link between civilization and a fixed or given territory. This book focuses upon the dynamic aspect of civilizations. Among the topics covered are: · Civilizational analysis and social theory · Global civilization and local cultures · Civilizational forms · Rationalization and Civilization · Civilizations as zones of prestige · Historical and comparative dimensions of civilization · The clash of civilizations.
The Idea Of Civilization And The Making Of The Global Order
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Author : Linklater, Andrew
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2020-11-18
The Idea Of Civilization And The Making Of The Global Order written by Linklater, Andrew and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-18 with Political Science categories.
The idea of civilization recurs frequently in reflections on international politics. However, International Relations academic writings on civilization have failed to acknowledge the major 20th-century analysis that examined the processes through which Europeans came to regard themselves as uniquely civilized – Norbert Elias’s On the Process of Civilization. This book provides a comprehensive exploration of the significance of Elias’s reflections on civilization for International Relations. It explains the working principles of an Eliasian, or process-sociological, approach to civilization and the global order and demonstrates how the interdependencies between state-formation, colonialism and an emergent international society shaped the European 'civilizing process'.
Civilization Modernity And Critique
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Author : Dunaj
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Civilization Modernity And Critique written by Dunaj and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with Civilization, Modern categories.
Civilization, Modernity, and Critique provides the first comprehensive, cutting edge engagement with the work of one of the most foundational figures in civilizational analysis: Johann P. Arnason. In order to do justice to Arnason's seminal and wide-ranging contributions to sociology, social theory and history, it brings together distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplinary backgrounds and geographical contexts. Through a critical, interdisciplinary dialogue, it offers an enrichment and expansion of the methodological, theoretical, and applicative scope of civilizational analysis, by addressing some of the most complex and pressing problems of contemporary global society. A unique and timely contribution to the ongoing task of advancing the project of a critical theory of society, this volume will appeal to scholars of sociology and social theory with interests in historical sociology, critical theory and civilizational analysis.
Globalization
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Author : Roland Robertson
language : en
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Release Date : 1994
Globalization written by Roland Robertson and has been published by SAGE Publications Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Political Science categories.
This text offers a contribution to the current debate over globalization, providing a a distinctively cultural focus on the social theory of the contemporary world.