Identity, Culture and Globalization
The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology - Volume 8
Published on 14. June 2001
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Hardback
X, 698 pages
978-90-04-12197-3 (ISBN)
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This book is about contemporary sociological analysis: its discussions, contradictions and controversies. Authors from various backgrounds discuss developments on all continents.
The 34 contributions are centered on six themes. The first is multiple modernities, showing us that there is no single road to the modernization of societies. The second theme is globalization, with new concepts like spatialization, world languages and new social movements. In part three, multiculturalism and diaspora movements are viewed as the pivotal factors for change in many societies. The fourth theme is the decline of the accountability of the state, concentrating on the shortcomings of traditional states and the emergence of new resources. In part five, the concept of postmodernity is discussed from the angles of identity, social reality, detachment and legacy.
Finally, the sixth part, 'Toward a New Agenda' looks into the future and lets sociology (or rather social knowledge) play a major part in today's society.
This volume is a rich collection of practical examples and solid arguments by some of the best sociologists in the world.
Also available in paperback (ISBN 9789004128736).
The 34 contributions are centered on six themes. The first is multiple modernities, showing us that there is no single road to the modernization of societies. The second theme is globalization, with new concepts like spatialization, world languages and new social movements. In part three, multiculturalism and diaspora movements are viewed as the pivotal factors for change in many societies. The fourth theme is the decline of the accountability of the state, concentrating on the shortcomings of traditional states and the emergence of new resources. In part five, the concept of postmodernity is discussed from the angles of identity, social reality, detachment and legacy.
Finally, the sixth part, 'Toward a New Agenda' looks into the future and lets sociology (or rather social knowledge) play a major part in today's society.
This volume is a rich collection of practical examples and solid arguments by some of the best sociologists in the world.
Also available in paperback (ISBN 9789004128736).
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Eliezer Ben-Rafael | Yitzhak Sternberg
Identity, Culture and Globalization
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Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, University of Jerusalem, is Weinberg Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He has published on ethnicity and language in Israel, and Jewish identities, including Language, Identity and Social Division (Clarendon, 1994) and Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel (with S. Sharot, Cambridge University Press, 1991)
Content
Contents
Foreword
General Introduction
1. Analyzing our time: a sociological promblematique, Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg
SECTION ONE: MULTIPLE MODERNITIES
Introduction
2. The vision of modern and contemporary society, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
3. Rethinking Modernity, Bjoern Wittrock
4. Modernity, civilization and globalization, Yitzhak Sternberg
5. Islam and Modernity, Dale F. Eickelman
6.'Confucian' East Asia and Modernity, Tu Weiming
7. Latin American Modernity, Renato Ortiz
8. The Multiplication of Modernity, Johann P. Arnason
SECTION TWO: GLOBALIZATION
Introduction
9. Convergence in societal systems, Alex Inkeles
10. Spatializing Turkey, Aysegul Baykan and Roland Robertson
11. Democracy and democratization in Africa, Benyamin Neuberger
12. A Political sociology of the world language system, Abram de Swaan
13. Language and modernity in Algeria, Mohamed Benrabah
14. Globalization and privatization in higher education, Jerzy J. Smolicz
15. The new capitalist society, Alain Touraine
16. Americanization versus globalization, Johan Galtung
SECTION THREE: MULTICULTURALISM AND TRANSNATIONAL DISSPORAS
Introduction
17. The discourse on modernity in the United States, Juergen Heideking
18. Media technologies, social organization and democratic polities, Elihu Katz
19. Language policy, practice and ideology, Bernhard Spolsky
20. Vignettes of present day diaspora, Stanley J. Tambiah
21. The transformation of diaspora: the linguistic dimension, Eliezer Ben-Rafael,
22. Ethnicity cosmopolitanized? The new German Jewry, Y. Michael Bodemann
SECTION FOUR: THE DECLINING ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE STATE
Introduction
23. Becoming State Jews: from visibility to discretion, Pierre Birnbaum
24. The gift-relationship in an era of 'loose' solidarities, Ilana F. Silber
25. The elite connection in Israel, Eva Etzioni-Halevy
26. Voicing 'resistance': race& nation in the global space, Denise Ferreira Da Silva
SECTION FIVE: POSTMODERNITY
Introduction
27. Nationalism, modernism, and their multiplicities, Craig Calhoun
28. Identity in the globalizing world, Zygmunt Bauman
29. Postnational flows, identity formation and cultural space, Mike Featherstone
30. Postmodernity, cosmopolitanism and identity, Bryan S. Turner
31, Modernity and postmodernity in Japanese attitudes, Masamichi Sasaki
IN CONCLUSION:TOWARD A NEW AGENDA
Introduction
32. Some coming duties of sociology, Michael Wieviorka
33. Sociology as the heir of the social science, Erwin K. Scheuch
34. Transitions in post-social knowledge societies, Karin Knorr Cetina
Epilogue
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Matters
Foreword
General Introduction
1. Analyzing our time: a sociological promblematique, Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg
SECTION ONE: MULTIPLE MODERNITIES
Introduction
2. The vision of modern and contemporary society, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt
3. Rethinking Modernity, Bjoern Wittrock
4. Modernity, civilization and globalization, Yitzhak Sternberg
5. Islam and Modernity, Dale F. Eickelman
6.'Confucian' East Asia and Modernity, Tu Weiming
7. Latin American Modernity, Renato Ortiz
8. The Multiplication of Modernity, Johann P. Arnason
SECTION TWO: GLOBALIZATION
Introduction
9. Convergence in societal systems, Alex Inkeles
10. Spatializing Turkey, Aysegul Baykan and Roland Robertson
11. Democracy and democratization in Africa, Benyamin Neuberger
12. A Political sociology of the world language system, Abram de Swaan
13. Language and modernity in Algeria, Mohamed Benrabah
14. Globalization and privatization in higher education, Jerzy J. Smolicz
15. The new capitalist society, Alain Touraine
16. Americanization versus globalization, Johan Galtung
SECTION THREE: MULTICULTURALISM AND TRANSNATIONAL DISSPORAS
Introduction
17. The discourse on modernity in the United States, Juergen Heideking
18. Media technologies, social organization and democratic polities, Elihu Katz
19. Language policy, practice and ideology, Bernhard Spolsky
20. Vignettes of present day diaspora, Stanley J. Tambiah
21. The transformation of diaspora: the linguistic dimension, Eliezer Ben-Rafael,
22. Ethnicity cosmopolitanized? The new German Jewry, Y. Michael Bodemann
SECTION FOUR: THE DECLINING ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE STATE
Introduction
23. Becoming State Jews: from visibility to discretion, Pierre Birnbaum
24. The gift-relationship in an era of 'loose' solidarities, Ilana F. Silber
25. The elite connection in Israel, Eva Etzioni-Halevy
26. Voicing 'resistance': race& nation in the global space, Denise Ferreira Da Silva
SECTION FIVE: POSTMODERNITY
Introduction
27. Nationalism, modernism, and their multiplicities, Craig Calhoun
28. Identity in the globalizing world, Zygmunt Bauman
29. Postnational flows, identity formation and cultural space, Mike Featherstone
30. Postmodernity, cosmopolitanism and identity, Bryan S. Turner
31, Modernity and postmodernity in Japanese attitudes, Masamichi Sasaki
IN CONCLUSION:TOWARD A NEW AGENDA
Introduction
32. Some coming duties of sociology, Michael Wieviorka
33. Sociology as the heir of the social science, Erwin K. Scheuch
34. Transitions in post-social knowledge societies, Karin Knorr Cetina
Epilogue
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index of Names
Index of Matters