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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Zaheer Baber and Joseph M. Bryant - Contributions by Professor Lord Anthony Giddens; Robert J. Brym; Zaheer Baber; Guang Xia; J.I. Bakker; Michael Zeitlin; Elijah Anderson; Maurice Zeitlin; Nedim Karakayali; John Keane; Parvin Ghorayshi; Randall Klappentext This book highlights the continuing relevance of classical sociological theories and concepts in making sense of the contemporary globalized world. Covering a very wide historical and geographical range and topics that include: classical sociological theory, genocide, resistance, the intifada, street gangs, democracy, bureaucracy, war literature, ethnic diversity, national culture, and science, the distinguished contributors to this volume affirm the contemporary relevance of the classical sociological tradition for making sense of the global human condition. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction: Passing the Torch, Kindling the Fires: Irving M. Zeitlin on the Classical Tradition and its Contemporary Possibilities Chapter 2 Chapter 1: Mentoring Matters: Reflections on Paidagogy and the Dilemmas of Disciplinarity Chapter 3 Chapter 2: The Code of the Street Chapter 4 Chapter 3: The Last Stands of Jews in the Small Town Ghettos of German-Occupied Poland, 1941-1943 Chapter 5 Chapter 4: State Breakdown Theory and Geopolitical Theory: Lessons from the Fall of the Soviet Bloc Chapter 6 Chapter 5: Breaking the Iron Triangle of Sociological Causation: Structural, Cultural and Agentic Influences on Fatah and Hamas during the Second Intifada Chapter 7 Chapter 6: Deference versus Democracy in Traditional and Modern Bureaucracy: Grounded Theoretical Refinements of Weber's Ideal Type Model Chapter 8 Chapter 7: Democracy: 21st-Century Horizons Chapter 9 Chapter 8: Globalization, Migration, and Globalizing Cities: Implications for Democratic Urban Governance Chapter 10 Chapter 9: Defining National Culture: The Case of Contemporary China Chapter 11 Chapter 10: Assimilation and Anti-Semitism: Comparing 15th Century Catholic Spain and Second Reich Germany Chapter 12 Chapter 11: Christianity in Korea and Japan: A Historical-Sociological Study of Differential Cultural Reception and Social Impact from the 1880's to the 1940's Chapter 13 Chapter 12: Mannheim, Mills and Merton: The Sociology of Knowledge and Its Ambivalent Reception in America Chapter 14 Chapter 13: Borders and Hybridity in Contemporary Literature and Social Theory Chapter 15 Chapter 14: Combat Medicine and War Literature Chapter 16 Chapter 15: Planting Empires, Producing Science: Botanical Gardens, Plants and the Roots of Globalization Chapter 17 Appendix A: Complete List of Publications by Irving M. Zeitlin Chapter 18 Appendix B: Complete List of Ph.D. Dissertations Supervised by Irving M. Zeitlin at the University of Toronto Chapter 19 Intellectual Biographies of the Contributors...
