Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	State University of New York Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	SUNY series, Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
Release date:	June 2014
First published:	June 2014
Editors:	Said Amir Arjomand
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	496
ISBN-13:	978-1-4384-5159-6
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social theory Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General
LSN:	1-4384-5159-8
Barcode:	9781438451596

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