The Rhythm of Modernization: How Values Change over Time

The Rhythm of Modernization: How Values Change over Time
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 321
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ISBN-10 : 9789004411913
ISBN-13 : 9004411917
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis The Rhythm of Modernization: How Values Change over Time by : Raül Tormos

In The Rhythm of Modernization, Raül Tormos analyses the pace at which belief systems change across the developed world during the modernization process. It is often assumed that value change follows the slow rhythm of generational replacement. This book, however, reports trends that contradict this assumption in the field of values. Challenging Inglehart’s modernization theory, the transition from traditional to modern values happens much quicker than predicted. Many “baby-boomers” who were church-going, morally conservative materialists when they were young, become unchurched and morally tolerant postmaterialists in their later years. Using surveys from multiple countries over many years, and applying cutting-edge statistical techniques, this book shows how citizens quickly adapt their belief systems to new circumstances throughout their lives.

Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology

Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology
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Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages : 723
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ISBN-10 : 9781803921235
ISBN-13 : 1803921234
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis Elgar Encyclopedia of Political Sociology by : Maria Grasso

This comprehensive and authoritative Encyclopedia, featuring entries written by academic experts in the field, explores the diverse topics within the discipline of political sociology. By looking at both macro- and micro-components, questions relating to nation-states, political institutions and their development, and the sources of social and political change such as social movements and other forms of contentious politics, are raised and critically analysed.

The Modernization of North African Families in the Paris Area

The Modernization of North African Families in the Paris Area
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Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages : 400
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ISBN-10 : 9783110880137
ISBN-13 : 311088013X
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis The Modernization of North African Families in the Paris Area by : Andrée Michel

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Modernization, Value Change and Fertility in the Soviet Union

Modernization, Value Change and Fertility in the Soviet Union
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 450
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ISBN-10 : 0521320348
ISBN-13 : 9780521320344
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis Modernization, Value Change and Fertility in the Soviet Union by : Ellen Jones

This book explores social change in the Soviet Union.

Social Memory and Contemporaneity

Social Memory and Contemporaneity
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Publisher : CRVP
Total Pages : 201
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ISBN-10 : 9781565182349
ISBN-13 : 1565182340
Rating : 4/5 (49 Downloads)

Synopsis Social Memory and Contemporaneity by : Gulʹnara Abduvasitovna Bakieva

Introduction to social mnemology: the scientific base ; The ontology of human memory ; The semantics of social memory ; The cognitive aspect of social memory ; The praxiological aspect of social memory ; Social memory as communication ; Social memory as a factor of modernization.

Zola, The Body Modern

Zola, The Body Modern
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 241
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ISBN-10 : 9781351536080
ISBN-13 : 1351536087
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Synopsis Zola, The Body Modern by : Susan Harrow

Emile Zola's reputation as a landmark European novelist is undisputed. His monumental achievement, the novel cycle Les Rougon-Macquart: Histoire sociale et naturelle d'une famille sous le Second Empire (1871-1893), fixed his status as a major writer in the naturalist tradition. Is there any more to be said? Susan Harrow answers boldly in the affirmative, challenging the commonplace view that Zola's writing is predictable, prolix and transparent (what Barthes called 'readerly', for which read 'tedious'). Harrow exposes the modernist and postmodernist strategies which surface in the Rougon-Macquart novels, and reveals Zola's innovatory representation of the body captured here at work, at war, at play, at rest, and in arresting abstraction. Informed by critical thought from Barthes and Deleuze to Michel de Certeau and Anthony Giddens, Zola, the Body Modern offers a model for how we can revitalize our understanding of the canonical nineteenth-century European novel, and learn to travel more flexibly between parameters of century, style and aesthetics.

The Human Meaning of Social Change

The Human Meaning of Social Change
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Publisher : Russell Sage Foundation
Total Pages : 568
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ISBN-10 : 1610441028
ISBN-13 : 9781610441025
Rating : 4/5 (28 Downloads)

Synopsis The Human Meaning of Social Change by : Angus and Converse, Philip E. Campbell

This book is a companion piece to Sheldon and Moore's Indicators of Social Change. Whereas Indicators of Social Change was concerned with various kinds of "hard" data, typically sociostructural, this book is devoted chiefly to so-called "softer" data of a more social-psychological sort: the attitudes, expectations, aspirations, and values of the American population. The book deals with the meaning of change from two points of view. First, it is interested in the human meaning which people attribute to the complex social environment in which they find themselves; their understanding of group relations, the political process, and the consumer economy in which they participate. Secondly, it discusses the impact that the various alternatives offered by the environment have on the nature of their lives and the fulfillment of those lives. The twelve essays which make up the volume deal successively with the major domains of life. Each author sets forth an inclusive statement of the most significant dimensions of psychological change in a specific area of life, to review the state of present information, and to project the measurements needed to improve understanding of these changes in the future.

Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization

Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 398
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ISBN-10 : 9781136800450
ISBN-13 : 113680045X
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis Balinese Discourses on Music and Modernization by : Brita Heimarck Renee

While many Western scholars have discussed the technical aspects of Balinese music or the traditional contexts for performance, little has been written in Western languages about Balinese discourses on their music. This dissertation seeks to understand the experience of music in Bali according to Balinese voices through an analysis of oral and written dialogues on music, mainly by musicians and dalangs (shadow play puppeteers) from the village of Sukawati, scholars, teachers, administrators and students from the Indonesian College of the Arts (STSI) in the City of Denpasar. The study examines the influence of modernization on the traditional arts and their role in society. A concentration on Balinese discourses enables individual performers and scholars to represent themselves to a greater extent than previously seen in ethnomusicological scholarship, making this study more of a critical discussion among equals than a Western interpretation of 'others'. This approach permits a rare view into contemporary Balinese conceptions and practices of music.

The Modernist World

The Modernist World
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 977
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ISBN-10 : 9781317696155
ISBN-13 : 1317696158
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Modernist World by : Allana Lindgren

The Modernist World is an accessible yet cutting edge volume which redraws the boundaries and connections among interdisciplinary and transnational modernisms. The 61 new essays address literature, visual arts, theatre, dance, architecture, music, film, and intellectual currents. The book also examines modernist histories and practices around the globe, including East and Southeast Asia, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Australia and Oceania, Europe, Latin America, the Middle East and the Arab World, as well as the United States and Canada. A detailed introduction provides an overview of the scholarly terrain, and highlights different themes and concerns that emerge in the volume. The Modernist World is essential reading for those new to the subject as well as more advanced scholars in the area – offering clear introductions alongside new and refreshing insights.

Globalization, Value Change and Generations

Globalization, Value Change and Generations
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 351
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ISBN-10 : 9789047409571
ISBN-13 : 9047409574
Rating : 4/5 (71 Downloads)

Synopsis Globalization, Value Change and Generations by : Peter Ester

This book provides insights in and explanations of the varieties and similarities in values in Europe in a number of life spheres at the turn of the millennium.