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Society, History, and the Global Human Condition

Essays in Honor of Irving M. Zeitlin

von: Zaheer Baber, Joseph M. Bryant, Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, Robert J. Brym, Guang Xia, J.I. Bakker, Michael Zeitlin, Elijah Anderson, Maurice Zeitlin, Nedim Karakayali, John Keane, Parvin Ghorayshi, Randall Collins, Rod Nelson, Meir Amor, Andrew Eungi Kim, Irving M. Zeitlin
124,99 €
Verlag:	Lexington Books
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	18.12.2010
ISBN/EAN:	9780739140383
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	362

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Titelbeschreibung

This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include classical sociological theory, globalization, bureaucracy, genocide, resistance, ethnic diversity, the intifada, anti-Semitism, democracy, geopolitical theory, war literature, science, and national culture. The contributions span a wide range of geographical areas that include Korea, China, India, Poland, Spain, Germany, the ex-Soviet Union, Canada, and the United States. These essays by eminent scholars located in many parts of the world affirm the incredibly broad range of expertise and learning that Irving M. Zeitlin's work has engaged with. The contributions to this volume also serve to highlight the contemporary relevance of the classical sociological tradition in making sense of the global human condition.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

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

Autorenportrait

Zaheer Baber is professor of sociology at the University of Toronto. Joseph M. Bryant is professor of sociology and religion at the University of Toronto.