基本説明
Illuminates the impact of international cultural and economic change on world societies.
Full Description
Globalization, Knowledge and Society addresses the issues involved in the development of sociology as a global discipline and the increasing interpenetration of national traditions, cultures and economies through global change. Classic issues of relativism and universalism are raised in a new context. The related problems of tensions between national sociological traditions and the international discipline are explored. Finally the book considers the transnational process of social change, particularly as exemplified in international actors such as the Green and peace movements.This innovative volume, drawing on papers from International Sociology, addresses key questions for all those interested either in the nature of contemporary social change or in the challenge posed by such change to sociology.
Contents
Foreword - Margaret S ArcherIntroduction - Martin AlbrowTOWARDS A UNIVERSAL SOCIAL SCIENCEResisting the Revival of Relativism - Margaret S ArcherSociology as the Defetishisation of Modernity - Agnes HellerConceptual Frameworks in Comparative Inquiry - Divergent or Convergent? - Piotr SztompkaINTERNATIONALISING SOCIOLOGYSociology's Great Leap Forward - Edward A TiryakianThe Challenge of InternationalisationThe Application of Participatory-Action Research in Latin America - Orlando Fals BordaCREATING INDIGENOUS SOCIOLOGIESContributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African Oral Poetry - Akinsola A AkiwowoAsuwada Principle - M Akin MakindeAn Analysis of Akiwowo's Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African PerspectiveTowards an African Sociological Tradition - O B Lawuyi and Olufemi TaiwoA Rejoinder to Akiwowo and MakindeONE WORLD SOCIETYSocietal Development, or Development of the World-System? - Immanuel WallersteinRent-Seeking or Dependency as Explanations of Why Poor People Stay Poor - Erich WeedeAn Operational Analysis of the Phenomenon of the Other Underdevelopment in the Arab World and in the Third World - Mahmoud DhaouadiOccidental Reason, Orientalism, Islamic Fundamentalism - Mona Abaza and Georg StauthA CritiqueRLD MOVEMENTSThe Green Movement - Johan GaltungA Socio-Historical ExploratonThe Peace Movement - Artur MeierSome Questions Concerning its Social Nature and StructureSocial Movements and Social Change in Self-Creative Socety - Zsuzsa HegedusNew Civil Initiatives in the International Arena
