Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age

Häftad, Engelska, 2015

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A pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization.In this pioneering volume, leading international scholars argue for the development of a new approach to social theory that draws on regional studies for the conduct of comparative analysis in the global age. Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age moves beyond facile generalizations based on the historical experience of modernization in the West by highlighting differences rather than similarities and contrasts rather than commonalities, and by examining civilizational processes and culturally specific developmental patterns distinctive of different world regions. Essays combine comparative and historical sociology with civilizational analysis and the study of multiple and alternative modernities. Different patterns of modernization are compared within the framework of global/local compressed communication and interaction that results from globalization. The introductory chapter puts the present effort in the context of the seminal work of three generations of comparative sociologists, and what follows is a penetrating analysis of modernization and globality, opening the way for rectifying the erasure of the historical experience of a very sizeable portion of humankind from the foundation of social theory.

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Utgivningsdatum2015-01-02
Mått152 x 229 x 30 mm
Vikt680 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
Antal sidor496
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438451602

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Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local StudiesPrefaceIntroduction: The Challenge of Integrating Social Theory and Regional StudiesPart I. Comparative Sociology, Civilizational Analysis, and Regional Studies 1. Three Generations of Comparative SociologiesSaïd Amir Arjomand2. History, Sociology, and the Reconfiguration of CivilizationsBjörn Wittork3. Civilization in the Global Era: One, Many… or None?Edward A. Tiryakian 4. Power: Nation-States, Civilizations, and Globalization—A Multiple Modernities PerspectiveWillfried Spohn5. Reconfiguring Area Studies for the Global AgeWolf SchäferPart II. Historicizing Axial Shifts and Patterns of Evolution and Modernization 6. Historicizing Axial CivilizationsJohann P. Arnason7. Crystallization of Islam and Developmental Patterns in the Islamicate CivilizationSaïd Amir Arjomand8. Evolutionary Grades within Complex Societies: The Case of EthiopiaDonald N. Levine9. From Civilizations to Modernity: Divisions and Connections of the World, and Their Legacy—A Historical Social GeologyGöran TherbornPart III. World Regions, Colonial and Subaltern Modernities in the Global Periphery 10. World-Sociology Beyond the Fragments: Oblivion and Advance in the Comparative Analysis of ModernitiesPeter Wagner11. The Americas, Civilized Analysis, and Its Current Competitors: Bringing (Revolutionary) Politics Back In!Wolfgang Knöbl12. Atlantic Capitalism, American Economic CulturesJeremy C. A. Smith13. Second Slavery versus Second Serfdom: Local Labor Regimes of the Global PeripheryMenuela Boatcă 14. Subaltern Modernity: The Case of the Arab Iranian Community of BushehrBabak Rahimi15. The Construction of Regional Identities in East AsiaThomas Kern, Lotta Mayer, and Sang-hui Nam16. Gazing Backward or Looking Forward: Colonial Modernity and Making of a Sociology of Modern IndiaSujata PatelContibutorsIndex

"This book is a long-needed bridge between the increased transnational, regionalized, and interconnected world. It offers a sound foundation on which future scholars, particularly those with interests in comparative analysis, will be able to draw." — H-Net Reviews (H-USA)"…the book contains all sorts of information and argument that make it worth reading … [it] represents an advance in sociology, from the concentration on industrial societies to a full and proper concern with the historical record." — European Journal of Sociology