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Critical Theory and Climate Change: Collective Subjectivity, Evolution and Modernity
The social sciences, particularly sociology but also critical theory, have still insufficiently dealt with climate change, especially at the...
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Fundamentalism and modernity: the case of Theravada
The article investigates the possibility of the Theravada fraternity at the Mahavihara monastery of Sri Lanka became a ‘fundamentalist’ movement...
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Parallel trajectories and theorizations of religion and family in modernity: Toward an institutional logics perspective
Scholars theorize the effect of modernization on religious and familial institutions in a parallel way. Some argue that both are irreversibly in...
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Tragedy, Modernity and Political Life
What are the links between tragedy, politics and modernity? Diverse currents in social and critical theory have tackled this question; some arguing...
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Rethinking Modernity Postcolonialism and the Sociological Imagination
The second edition of this influential book addresses how the experiences and claims of non-European ‘others’ have been rendered invisible to the...
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Establishing an inverted U-shaped pattern of violence and war from prehistory to modernity: towards an interdisciplinary synthesis
How have broad patterns of violence and war changed from the dawn of humanity up to present time? In answering this question, researchers have...
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Third Modernity and Modernization
In contrast to the welfare economy and the risk regime as the second modernity, sociological theory characterizes contemporary society as a new basic...
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First Modernity and Modernization
The liberal economic system, the nation-state, the individualistic professional ethics, and scientific rationalism are assigned to the first...
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Second Modernity and Modernization
The welfare state, the relativization of individualistic professional ethics through social-state redistribution programs, the gender revolution, the...
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A Genealogy of Unmasking: Antiquity to Modernity
Unmasking is a rhetorical device that involves exposing another’s true motives. But in effect, it often entails imputing motives and imposing a...
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Conclusion: World Society and the Islamic Discourse of Modernity
The conclusion starts with a brief summary of the theoretical argument of the book on the connection between Muslim history and global modernity. The...
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Islam in Global Modernity Sociological Theory and the Diversity of Islamic Modernities
This book combines sociological theorising with studies on the Middle East and Islam. The diversity of modernities that can be observed in our world...
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Intensified Ambivalence of Modernity and Various Types of Authoritarianism
The prediction of the inevitable triumph of liberal democracy as the definitive form of life and government was a profound miscalculation because two...
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Islam and the Unity of Modernity: Modernization as an “Empty Progression”
The fourth chapter deals with the question of how the variety of historical modern projects relates to the postulated unity of a global modernity....
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Islam and the Diversity of Modernity: Multiple, Successive, and Entangled Modernities
The third chapter of the book describes three theoretical approaches that make different suggestions on how to conceptually tackle the observation of...
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Double Consciousness of Chinese Modernity: in the Cosmopolitan Ruins of Shanghai
This paper examines the inextricable relationship between the uncanny effects of knocking down Shanghai’s central district and their traumatic...
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Hmong Medicinal Plant Knowledge Transmission and Retention in Social Modernity
We studied Hmong medicinal plant knowledge in Thailand, focusing on knowledge transmission and retention. Sixteen herbalist specialists and 210...
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How Diverse Are Eve and Adam? Gender, Religion and (Western) Modernity
Drawing on research in the sociology of gender, this article explains to what extent the sexual binary can be considered a specifically modern...
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Introduction: Children, Youth, and Modernity in the ‘Everyday Urban’
In this introduction, we explore the complex entanglements of children and youth with the multifaceted project of modernity in India by advancing the...
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The Seine: Modernity, Memory, and Models of Time
The first chapter contends that sites are too temporally complex to be conceived through the frame of linear history as set out in traditional...