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Author:   Eliezer Ben-Rafael ,  Yitzhak Sternberg
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   8
Weight:   1.169kg
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9789004121973

ISBN 10:   9004121978
Pages:   698
Publication Date:   14 June 2001
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
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Contents Foreword General Introduction 1. Analyzing our time: a sociological promblématique, Eliezer Ben-Rafael and Yitzhak Sternberg SECTION ONE: MULTIPLE MODERNITIES Introduction 2. The vision of modern and contemporary society, Shmuel N. Eisenstadt 3. Rethinking Modernity, Björn Wittrock 4. Modernity, civilization and globalization, Yitzhak Sternberg 5. Islam and Modernity, Dale F. Eickelman 6.‘Confucian’ East Asia and Modernity, Tu Weiming 7. Latin American Modernity, Renato Ortiz 8. The Multiplication of Modernity, Johann P. Arnason SECTION TWO: GLOBALIZATION Introduction 9. Convergence in societal systems, Alex Inkeles 10. Spatializing Turkey, Aysegul Baykan and Roland Robertson 11. Democracy and democratization in Africa, Benyamin Neuberger 12. A Political sociology of the world language system, Abram de Swaan 13. Language and modernity in Algeria, Mohamed Benrabah 14. Globalization and privatization in higher education, Jerzy J. Smolicz 15. The new capitalist society, Alain Touraine 16. Americanization versus globalization, Johan Galtung SECTION THREE: MULTICULTURALISM AND TRANSNATIONAL DISSPORAS Introduction 17. The discourse on modernity in the United States, Jürgen Heideking 18. Media technologies, social organization and democratic polities, Elihu Katz 19. Language policy, practice and ideology, Bernhard Spolsky 20. Vignettes of present day diaspora, Stanley J. Tambiah 21. The transformation of diaspora: the linguistic dimension, Eliezer Ben-Rafael, 22. Ethnicity cosmopolitanized? The new German Jewry, Y. Michael Bodemann SECTION FOUR: THE DECLINING ACCOUNTABILITY OF THE STATE Introduction 23. Becoming State Jews: from visibility to discretion, Pierre Birnbaum 24. The gift-relationship in an era of ‘loose’ solidarities, Ilana F. Silber 25. The elite connection in Israel, Eva Etzioni-Halevy 26. Voicing ‘resistance’: race& nation in the global space, Denise Ferreira Da Silva SECTION FIVE: POSTMODERNITY Introduction 27. Nationalism, modernism, and their multiplicities, Craig Calhoun 28. Identity in the globalizing world, Zygmunt Bauman 29. Postnational flows, identity formation and cultural space, Mike Featherstone 30. Postmodernity, cosmopolitanism and identity, Bryan S. Turner 31, Modernity and postmodernity in Japanese attitudes, Masamichi Sasaki IN CONCLUSION:TOWARD A NEW AGENDA Introduction 32. Some coming duties of sociology, Michael Wieviorka 33. Sociology as the heir of the social science, Erwin K. Scheuch 34. Transitions in post-social knowledge societies, Karin Knorr Cetina Epilogue Bibliography List of Contributors Index of Names Index of Matters

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Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Ph.D. (1974) in Sociology, University of Jerusalem, is Weinberg Professor of Sociology at Tel-Aviv University. He has published on ethnicity and language in Israel, and Jewish identities, including Language, Identity and Social Division (Clarendon, 1994) and Ethnicity, Religion and Class in Israel (with S. Sharot, Cambridge University Press, 1991)

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