Capitalism And Modernity

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134979127

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First Published in 2004. The nature of modernity, and its connection with capitalism, are questions at the forefront of contemporary sociological debate. Derek Sayer re-examines the answers given by Karl Marx and Max Weber, authors of two of the most profound sociological critiques of modernity. His reassessment of Marx and Weber on capitalism and modernity provides a new reading which reveals the remarkable consonances between their sociologies of the modern condition. Going beyond the well-known stereotypes of ‘the Marx-Weber debate’, Professor Sayer shows that both Marx and Weber produced a challenging critique of the nature of power and subjectivity in modern society, a critique which retains all its intellectual force and moral relevance today. A major work of original scholarship, Capitalism and Modernity is clearly and accessibly written. It is an authoritative and provocative commentary on a debate central to modern sociology and politics and will be a key text in social theory for students of sociology, politics and philosophy.

Author : Derek Sayer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134979134

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1973-02-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781107268043

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Capitalism and Modern Social Theory by Anthony Giddens Pdf

Giddens's analysis of the writings of Marx, Durkheim and Weber has become the classic text for any student seeking to understand the three thinkers who established the basic framework of contemporary sociology. The first three sections of the book, based on close textual examination of the original sources, contain separate treatments of each writer. The author demonstrates the internal coherence of their respective contributions to social theory. The concluding section discusses the principal ways in which Marx can be compared with the other two authors, and discusses misconceptions of some conventional views on the subject.

Author : Arif Dirlik
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 147 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317258926

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Global Modernity by Arif Dirlik Pdf

"A compelling essay on the contemporary human condition." William D. Coleman, Director of the Institute on Globalization and the Human Condition, McMaster University "An unusually perceptive and balanced appraisal of the globalization hype and its relation to the reality of global capitalism." Immanuel Wallerstein, Yale University In his provocative new book Arif Dirlik argues that the present represents not the beginning of globalization, but its end. We are instead in a new era in the unfolding of capitalism -- "global modernity". The fall of communism in the 1980s generated culturally informed counter-claims to modernity. Globalization has fragmented our understanding of what is "modern". Dirlik's "global modernity" is a concept that enables us to distinguish the present from its Eurocentric past, while recognizing the crucial importance of that past in shaping the present.

Author : Gerda Reith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780429875649

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Addictive Consumption by Gerda Reith Pdf

In this engaging new book, Gerda Reith explores key theoretical concepts in the sociology of consumption. Drawing on the ideas of Foucault, Marx and Bataille, amongst others, she investigates the ways that understandings of ‘the problems of consumption’ change over time, and asks what these changes can tell us about their wider social and political contexts. Through this, she uses ideas about both consumption and addiction to explore issues around identity and desire, excess and control and reason and disorder. She also assesses how our concept of 'normal' consumption has grown out of efforts to regulate behaviour historically considered as disruptive or deviant, and how in the contemporary world the 'dark side' of consumption has been medicalised in terms of addiction, pathology and irrationality. By drawing on case studies of drugs, food and gambling, the volume demonstrates the ways in which modern practices of consumption are rooted in historical processes and embedded in geopolitical structures of power. It not only asks how modern consumer culture came to be in the form it is today, but also questions what its various manifestations can tell us about wider issues in capitalist modernity. Addictive Consumption offers a compelling new perspective on the origins, development and problems of consumption in modern society. The volume’s interdisciplinary profile will appeal to scholars and students in sociology, psychology, history, philosophy and anthropology.

Author : Eren Duzgun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009158343

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Capitalism, Jacobinism and International Relations by Eren Duzgun Pdf

Revised version of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of York, 2017, titled Property, state and geopolitics: re-interpreting the Turkish road to modernity.

Author : Jack Goody
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780745637990

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Capitalism and Modernity by Jack Goody Pdf

This important new book investigates how the West attained its current position of economic and social advantage. In an incisive historical analysis, Jack Goody examines when and why Europe (and Anglo-America) started to outstrip all other continents in socio-economic growth. Drawing on non-Western examples of economic and technical progress, Goody challenges assumptions about long-term European supremacy of a ‘cultural’ kind, as was a feature of many theories current in social science. He argues that the divergence came with the Industrial Revolution and that the earlier bourgeois revolution of the sixteenth century was but one among many Eurasia-wide expressions of developing mercantile and manufacturing activity. This original book casts new light on the history of capitalism, industrialization and modernity, and will be essential reading for all those interested in the great debate about the economic rise of the West.

Author : Eugene McCarraher
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 817 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674242777

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The Enchantments of Mammon by Eugene McCarraher Pdf

“An extraordinary work of intellectual history as well as a scholarly tour de force, a bracing polemic, and a work of Christian prophecy...McCarraher challenges more than 200 years of post-Enlightenment assumptions about the way we live and work.” —The Observer At least since Max Weber, capitalism has been understood as part of the “disenchantment” of the world, stripping material objects and social relations of their mystery and magic. In this magisterial work, Eugene McCarraher challenges this conventional view. Capitalism, he argues, is full of sacrament, whether one is prepared to acknowledge it or not. First flowering in the fields and factories of England and brought to America by Puritans and evangelicals, whose doctrine made ample room for industry and profit, capitalism has become so thoroughly enmeshed in the fabric of our society that our faith in “the market” has become sacrosanct. Informed by cultural history and theology as well as management theory, The Enchantments of Mammon looks to nineteenth-century Romantics, whose vision of labor combined reason, creativity, and mutual aid, for salvation. In this impassioned challenge to some of our most firmly held assumptions, McCarraher argues that capitalism has hijacked our intrinsic longing for divinity—and urges us to break its hold on our souls. “A majestic achievement...It is a work of great moral and spiritual intelligence, and one that invites contemplation about things we can’t afford not to care about deeply.” —Commonweal “More brilliant, more capacious, and more entertaining, page by page, than his most ardent fans dared hope. The magnitude of his accomplishment—an account of American capitalism as a religion...will stun even skeptical readers.” —Christian Century

Author : Mike Savage,Alan Warde,Kevin Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137078100

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Urban Sociology, Capitalism and Modernity by Mike Savage,Alan Warde,Kevin Ward Pdf

The long-awaited second edition of this highly successful text on urban sociology retains the distinctive character and focus of the original, while taking fully into account recent theoretical debates and new empirical research. Expanded and thoroughly revised throughout, it incorporates the substantial new literature on urban inequality, urban culture, urban politics and globalization. It thus offers a comprehensive and up-to-the-minute account of its subject, ideal for study purposes at undergraduate level and beyond.

Author : Maarten Prak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2005-06-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134604418

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Early Modern Capitalism by Maarten Prak Pdf

This volume takes stock of recent research on economic growth, as well as the development of capital and labour markets, during the centuries that preceded the Industrial Revolution. The book underlines the diversity in the economic experiences of early modern Europeans and suggests how this variety might be the foundation of a new conception of economic and social change.

Author : Robert Antonio
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780470755433

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Marx and Modernity by Robert Antonio Pdf

In this illuminating and concise collection of readings, Karl Marx emerges as the first theorist to give a comprehensive social view of the birth and development of capitalist modernity that began with the Second Industrial Revolution and still exists today.

Author : Francis Ching-Wah Yip
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674021471

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Capitalism as Religion? A Study of Paul Tillich's Interpretation of Modernity by Francis Ching-Wah Yip Pdf

The relationship between religion and modern culture remains a controversial issue within Christian theology. Using the concept of “cultural modernity,” Francis Ching-Wah Yip reconstructs Paul Tillich’s interpretation of modernity and shows that Tillich’s notion of theonomy served to underscore the problems of modernity and to develop a response.

Author : Michael Savage,Alan Warde
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105004462441

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Urban Sociology, Capitalism, and Modernity by Michael Savage,Alan Warde Pdf

Seeks to defend the achievements of urban sociology, and its contribution to evaluating theories of the nature and implications of capitalism and modernity. The book reviews the history of urban sociology, theories of uneven development, studies of urban inequalities and analyses of urban culture.

Author : Thomas K. McCraw
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 764 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0674175565

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Creating Modern Capitalism by Thomas K. McCraw Pdf

This memorial release takes a look back at the life and career of legendary American soul and R&B vocalist and pop star Whitney Houston, whose powerful vocals and larger than life image made her an icon, before her life short with her unexpected death in 2012 at the age f 48. ~ Cammila Collar, Rovi

Author : Luciano Pellicani
Publisher : Telos Press, Limited
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : UCSC:32106011545578

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The Genesis of Capitalism and the Origins of Modernity by Luciano Pellicani Pdf