Rethinking civilizational analysis:
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London SAGE Publications 2004
Schriftenreihe:Sage studies in international sociology 52
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Cover; Contents; Preface; Contributors; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Civilization in a Historical and Global Perspective; Chapter 2 -- Civilizational Forms; Chapter 3 -- Civilizational Analysis: Renovating the Sociological Tradition; Chapter 4 -- The Civilizational Dimension of Modernity: Modernity as a Distinct Civilization; Chapter 5 -- Note on the Concept of an Axial Turning in Human History; Chapter 6 -- Global Civilization and Local Cultures: A Crude Look at the Whole; Chapter 7 -- Civilization and its Sources; Chapter 8 -- Civilizational Patterns and Civilizing Processes
Although the concept of 'civilization' has deep roots in the social sciences, there is an urgent need to re-think it for contemporary times. Rethinking Civilizational Analysis 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
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ISBN:1412901839
1412931347
9781412901833
9781412931342

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