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Author : Talcott Parsons
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (871 download)
Download or read book Structure and Process in Modern Societies written by Talcott Parsons and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Detlef Pollack
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134153821
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)
Download or read book The Role of Religion in Modern Societies written by Detlef Pollack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does modernization lead to the decline of religion? This question lies at the centre of a key debate in the sociology of religion. During the past decade American scholars, using primarily American data, have dominated this debate and have made a strong case that the answer to this question is no. Recently, however, a new crop of European scholars, working with new sources of European data, have uncovered evidence that points toward an affirmitive answer. This volume pays special attention to these trends and developments to provide the reader with a more well-rounded understanding of the many ways in which religion interacts with modernization. Respected scholars such as David Voas, Steve Bruce and Anthony Gill examine modern societies across the world in this splendid book which will interest sociologists, political scientists, historians, and theologians in equal measure.
Author : Barbara Misztal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 074566797X
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Trust in Modern Societies written by Barbara Misztal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is one of the first systematic discussions of the nature of trust as a means of social cohesion, discussing the works of leading social theorists on the issue of social solidarity.
Author : Talcott Parsons
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book The System of Modern Societies written by Talcott Parsons and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1971 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the base from which modern societies developed.
Author : Bram Gieben
Publisher : Polity
ISBN 13 : 9780745609607
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (96 download)
Download or read book The Formations of Modernity written by Bram Gieben and published by Polity. This book was released on 1993-01-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This challenging and innovative book 'maps' the evolution of those distinctive forms of political, economic, social and cultural life which characterize modern societies, from their origins in early modern Europe to the nineteenth century. It examines the roots of modern knowledge and the birth of the social sciences in the Enlightenment, and analyses the impact on the emerging identity of 'the West' of its encounters through exploration, trade, conquest and colonization, with 'other civilizations'. Designed as an introduction to modern societies and modern sociological analyses, this book is of value to students on a wide variety of social science courses in universities and colleges and also to readers with no prior knowledge of sociology. Selected readings from a broad range of classical writers (Weber, Durkheim, Marx, Freud, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and contemporary thinkers (Michael Mann, E.P. Thompson, Edward Said) are integrated in each chapter, together with student questions and exercises.
Author : Montserrat Guibernau
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745671683
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)
Download or read book Belonging written by Montserrat Guibernau and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-10-11 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is commonly assumed that we live in an age of unbridled individualism, but in this important new book Montserrat Guibernau argues that the need to belong to a group or community - from peer groups and local communities to ethnic groups and nations - is a pervasive and enduring feature of modern social life. The power of belonging stems from the potential to generate an emotional attachment capable of fostering a shared identity, loyalty and solidarity among members of a given community. It is this strong emotional dimension that enables belonging to act as a trigger for political mobilization and, in extreme cases, to underpin collective violence. Among the topics examined in this book are identity as a political instrument; emotions and political mobilization; the return of authoritarianism and the rise of the new radical right; symbols and the rituals of belonging; loyalty, the nation and nationalism. It includes case studies from Britain, Spain, Catalonia, Germany, the Middle East and the United States. This wide-ranging and cutting-edge book will be of great interest to students and scholars in politics, sociology and the social sciences generally.
Author : Stephen K. Sanderson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317256018
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)
Download or read book Modern Societies written by Stephen K. Sanderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-11-17 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sanderson explores the nature of the contemporary world’s 200 societies by comparing and contrasting their basic institutions and patterns of social organization. Major topics include the rich democracies and how they became rich and democratic; the expansion of government and the welfare state; the collapse of Communism and the transition to postsocialist societies; the conditions of less-developed countries, with attention to those that are developing rapidly as well as those that continue to lag far behind; racial and ethnic divisions and conflicts worldwide; the gender revolution of the past fifty years and changing contemporary patterns of gender inequality throughout the world; major shifts in family patterns and the transition to below-replacement fertility; the global spread and expansion of mass education and educational credentialism; worldwide patterns of religious belief and practice; a detailed evaluation of the secularization thesis; economic, political, and cultural globalization; the nature of social and economic progress over the past two centuries; and nine predictions concerning the short-term and long-term future of the world. The book provides detailed and fully up-to-date statistical data on societies in forty-three tables.
Author : Ron Eyerman
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520369521
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Intellectuals, Universities, and the State in Western Modern Societies written by Ron Eyerman and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1987.
Author : Marvin E. Olsen
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000307913
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Power In Modern Societies written by Marvin E. Olsen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensively revised and updated new edition of Olsen’s Power in Societies, this book contains carefully selected and edited writings on the exercise of social power in contemporary societies. The essays cover four broad topics: power in social organization, theoretical perspectives on power, national power structures, and power and the state. Ea
Author : David Held
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521261975
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (619 download)
Download or read book Social Theory of Modern Societies written by David Held and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1989-12-07 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the past decade, Anthony Giddens has published a series of substantial volumes that have defined a distinctive and original theoretical approach. The twin focal points of his research are the "theory of structuration" and the analysis of "modernity." Giddens' writing on these and related themes are widely recognized as among the most important contributions to theoretical debate in the social sciences. This is the first book to provide a systematic and critical assessment of Giddens' work. It includes eleven critical essays specially commissioned from contributors who are well known in their own fields. In a concluding essay, Giddens responds to the criticisms raised by these and other authors, and clarifies and elaborates on his current views.
Author : Kerstin Brückweh
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137284501
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book Engineering Society written by Kerstin Brückweh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explaining crime by reference to abnormalities of the brain is just one example of how the human and social sciences have influenced the approach to social problems in Western societies since 1880. Focusing on applications such as penal policy, therapy, and marketing, this volume examines how these sciences have become embedded in society.
Author : Lawrence I. Conrad
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351949241
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)
Download or read book Contagion written by Lawrence I. Conrad and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contagion - even today the word conjures up fear of disease and plague and has the power to terrify. The nine essays gathered here examine what pre-modern societies thought about the spread of disease and how it could be controlled: to what extent were concepts familiar to modern epidemiology present? What does the pre-modern terminology tell us about the conceptions of those times? How did medical thought relate to religious and social beliefs? The contributors reveal the complexity of ideas on these subjects, from antiquity through to the early modern world, from China to India, the Middle East, and Europe. Particular topics include attitudes to leprosy in the Old Testament and the medieval West, conceptions of smallpox etiology in China, witchcraft and sorcery as disease agents in ancient India, and the influence of classical Greek medical theory. An important conclusion is that non-medical perceptions are as crucial as medical ones in people’s beliefs about disease and the ways in which it can be combatted. Today we may not believe in the power of demons, but the idea that illness is retribution for sin retains great power, as was shown by the popular reaction to the spread of AIDS/HIV, and this is a lesson from the past that the medical profession would do well to heed.
Author : Stuart Hall
Publisher : Blackwell Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781557867162
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Modernity written by Stuart Hall and published by Blackwell Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-23 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a comprehensive introduction to the history, sociology, and ideas of modern society, focusing on the formation, consolidation, and prospects of modernity.
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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004410511
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrialization, borrowing and mixing ideas originating in domains such as corporate identity formation, mediatization, scientification, technological innovation, mechanization, capitalism, mass production, medicalization, educationalization, artistic production, and social utopia, while competing with other interest groups who pursued their own goals. The book looks at different focus areas of modernity, and analyzes how humans created, mediated, and interacted with the technospheres of modern societies. Contributors: Klaus Dittrich, Irma Hadzalic, Frederik Herman, Enric Novella, Ira Plein, Françoise Poos, Karin Priem, and Angelo Van Gorp.
Author : Patricia Crone
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1780748043
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Pre-Industrial Societies written by Patricia Crone and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eminent historian Patricia Crone defines the common features of a wide range of pre-industrial societies, from locations as seemingly disparate as the Mongol Empire and pre-Columbian America, to cultures as diverse as the Ming Dynasty and seventeenth-century France. In a lucid exploration of the characteristics shared by these societies, the author examines such key elements as economic organization, politics, culture, and the role of religion. An essential introductory text for all students of history, Pre-Industrial Societies provides readers with all the necessary tools for gaining a substantial understanding of life in pre-modern times. In addition, as a perceptive insight into a lost world, italso acts as a starting point for anyone interested in the present possibilities and future challenges faced by our own global society.
Author : Hans-peter Blossfeld
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000303926
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book The New Role Of Women written by Hans-peter Blossfeld and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to systematically track postwar changes in family formation in Western Europe and the United States. Cohabitation and motherhood outside of marriage have become more widespread at the same time that women’s social roles are evolving. Women are attaining higher levels of education, marrying at an older age, more frequently working outside the home, and have more reproductive freedom due to new advances in contraception. In this original collection of essays, sociologists and demographers from eight Western European countries and the United States use longitudinal data to compare national variations and explain the connection between the new role of women and family formation in postwar society. The contributors provide a thorough review of the social demographic literature to advance a variety of hypotheses about the relationships between changing women’s education and family formation outcomes, which are empirically examined and compared across countries.
Author : Frederic Lemieux
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1787691721
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Intelligence and State Surveillance in Modern Societies written by Frederic Lemieux and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-11-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the early 1990’s, Western state surveillance and intelligence activities have drastically adapted to new domestic and global challenges. This book examines the evolution of state surveillance in modern societies and provides an international perspective on influential trends affecting these activities.
