Identity, Culture and Globalization

The Annals of the International Institute of Sociology - Volume 8
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-12197-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 698 Seiten, Gewicht: 1169 g

Reihe: Annals of the International Institute of Sociology

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).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sternberg, Yitzhak

Ben-Rafael, Eliezer

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Globalisierung, Transformationsprozesse

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents
Foreword
General Introduction

1. Analyzing our time: a sociological promblématique, 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, Björn 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, Jürgen 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

Über Autor(innen)

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)