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Rethinking civilizational analysis / edited by Saïd Amir Arjomand and Edward A. Tiryakian.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Sage studies in international sociology ; 52.Publication details: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, 2004.Description: 1 online resource (xi, 260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1412901839
  • 9781412901833
  • 9781412931342
  • 1412931347
  • 9781446215739
  • 1446215733
  • 1280371064
  • 9781280371066
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rethinking civilizational analysis.DDC classification:
  • 306/.01 22
LOC classification:
  • CB19 .R464 2004eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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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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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