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Stratification of Late Imperial Society
By late imperial times (by, say, the 15th/sixteenth century), Chinese rural society was decidedly not a feudal society in the Western sense. Not only...
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The Imaginary Society III: The Economic System
The Imaginary Republic concludes with a depiction of the utopia’s economic system. After the health system, the economy is the trait of the ideal...
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Adam Smith on Religious Psychology in Society
Hume’s most sophisticated contemporary interlocutor was his friend Adam Smith (1723–1790). Smith treated religion in a naturalistic fashion, as a...
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Contemporary Kenya: Politics, Economics, Environment, and Society
The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Kenya is a bold attempt to address a wide range of themes and ideas in one volume, covering the country’s...
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Origin and Disappearance of Society
Occidentally, the individual is defined as a social being. The individual is “in society” with many other individuals. They meet, exchange and live...
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Describing Modern Egyptian Society
The chapter discusses texts by two individual Polytechnic graduates, Dubois-Aimé and his essays on the Bedouins of Egypt and Chabrol de Volvic who...
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Changes in the Society at the Grassroots Level in China
At the Central Political and Legal Work Conference held in early 2019, General Secretary **** ** put forward clear requirements on social...
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Civil Society and the Politics of Democratization
As noted in Chap. 20 , Kenya gained independence in 1963 under a multiparty system, with two major...
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The Imaginary Society I: The Health System
In the second half of the Imaginary Republic, Agostini begins the formal description of the utopian society. The new topic changes the dynamics...
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Patriarchal Landowners’ Authoritarian Society and the Age of Imperial Power
The terms fengjian, fengjian system, fengjian society, and fengjian period that are commonly used in China’s mainland today to express the social...
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Introduction: Agriculture—The Key to Understanding the Traditional Chinese Society
In terms of agriculture, the earliest economic activity in the human society, China is one of the earliest regions with the germination and...
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Experiencing Society and the Lived Welfare State
This open access book presents a new approach to the history of welfare state. By applying the concepts of experiencing society and the lived welfare...
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Hans Freyer’s Sociology of the Völkisch Society
The credit for having examined the role of sociology in the development of a völkisch conception of science for the first time goes to the...
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The Experience (and Constitution) of Society in Postwar and Post-Industrial Finland, 1960–2020
This chapter asks how experiences of society, societal structures, and ideas of society are related; how they produce actions (like politics); and...
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Late Imperial State and Society (Qing)
Our next topic is the relationship between the elite (that is to say, the gentry, the degree holders, the people who have civil service examination...
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Glam Rock and the Society of the Spectacle
If the music of Glam Rock was central to the shift from dancing to live bands to dancing to records, the background to the development of Glam Rock...
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William Whiston, Experimental Lecturing and the Royal Society of London
William Whiston became Cambridge’s third Lucasian Professor of Mathematics in 1702, succeeding Isaac Newton. Before that, he had published the first...
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Umi Sardjono (1923–2011) and the Quest to Build a New Society for Indonesian Women
This chapter presents a biography of Umi Sardjono, one of the most important women activists on the political left in Indonesia in the period of...
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The Bright Society, Public Security, and the Tokyo University Struggle
This chapter situates the 1968 Tokyo University occupation amidst the evolution of Japan’s system of domestic security and legal system in the 1960s....
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The Imaginary Society II: The Political System and the Military Organisation
The portrayal of the utopian society continues with a description of its political system. A few pages are sufficient for Agostini to give a...