Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age

Informationen zum Autor Saïd Amir Arjomand is Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology and Director of the Stony Brook Institute for Global Studies at Stony Brook University, State University of New York. He is the author and editor of many books, including Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age and (with Nathan J. Brown) The Rule of Law, Islam, and Constitutional Politics in Egypt and Iran , both also published by SUNY Press. Klappentext 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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• Authors: Sand Amir (EDT) Arjomand
• Assisted by: Said Amir Arjomand (Editor), Saïd Amir Arjomand (Editor)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.01.2015
• EAN: 9781438451602
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-5160-2
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Suny Series, Pangaea II: Globa; SUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Soziologie, Sociology, Globalization, Politik und Staat, Social Theory, Regionalstudien, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies