Ideas Of Social Order In The Ancient World

Author : Vilho Harle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780313030055

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Ideas of Social Order in the Ancient World by Vilho Harle Pdf

Harle focuses on the perennial issue of social order by providing a comparative analysis of ideas on social order in the classical Chinese political philosophy, the Indian epic and political literature, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, the classical Greek and Roman political thought, and early Christianity. His analysis is based on the religious, political, and literary texts that represent their respective civilizations as both their major achievements and sources of shared values. Harle maintains that two major approaches to establishing and maintaining social order exist in all levels and types of social relations: moral principles and political power. According to the principle-oriented approaches, social order will prevail if and when people follow strict moral principles. According to the contending power-oriented approach, orderly relations can only be based on the application of power by the ruler over the ruled. The principle-oriented approaches introduce a comprehensive civil society of individuals; the power-oriented approaches give major roles to the city-state, its government and relationships between them. The question of morality can be recognized also within the power-oriented approaches which either submit politics to morality or maintain that politics must be taken as nothing else than politics. This book is a contribution to peace and international studies as well as political theory and international relations.

Author : Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd,Iain Morley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107082731

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Death Rituals and Social Order in the Ancient World by Colin Renfrew,Michael J. Boyd,Iain Morley Pdf

This volume, with essays by leading archaeologists and prehistorians, considers how prehistoric humans attempted to recognise, understand and conceptualise death.

Author : Fränze Wilhelm
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030740696

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Political Difference and Global Normative Orders by Fränze Wilhelm Pdf

Once considered a question of an international order based on consolidated statehood and homogeneous social communities within national borders, global order has become a question of alternative political articulations, resistance movements, and cultural diversity, among others. This book first critically analyzes the conditions for the struggles of theorizing global normative order in political and IR theory. Second, to make sense of the presence of difference and possibility for global normative order in view of the simultaneous absence of first foundations, the study draws on post-foundational thinking based on the seminal work of German philosopher Martin Heidegger and Argentine political theorist Ernesto Laclau. Finally, the author develops a theoretical framework for a hauntological approach to global normative order that provides an alternative and theoretically coherent explanation for the emergence of global order. This is of interest to scholars as well as practitioners (including activists) concerned with global social relations, global political discourse, and the construction of global identity and normative order(s).

Author : Manohar S. Pawar,David R. Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136938320

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Social Development by Manohar S. Pawar,David R. Cox Pdf

This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and wellbeing. Towards this end, several leading scholars have presented critical and inspiring thoughts on the significance and usefulness in development of genuine participation of people, bottom-up strategies, self-reliance, capacity building, and egalitarian and empowering partnerships. They also delve into hitherto neglected aspects of social development related to preparing personnel for social development work, ethical imperatives and a new social development paradigm. The world’s contemporary problems persist in part because the social development approach in its comprehensive form has not been planned and implemented at local, national and global levels. Social Development presents the optimistic argument that the application of social development ideas can help create a world in which almost all people’s wellbeing can be significantly enhanced.

Author : B. Mohan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230117655

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Development, Poverty of Culture, and Social Policy by B. Mohan Pdf

This book offers an interdisciplinary analysis of complex issues, constructs, and interventions that deal with human-social problems with global implications. It posits social development theory and practice in a critically important context challenging the scientific orthodoxy of our times.

Author : Manohar S. Pawar,David R. Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136938313

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Social Development by Manohar S. Pawar,David R. Cox Pdf

This edited collection demonstrates that the ideas inherent in social development are practical and not utopian. By discussing and delineating a social development approach, the book argues the need for practicing it at local or grassroots-level communities to promote universal social justice and wellbeing. Towards this end, several leading scholars have presented critical and inspiring thoughts on the significance and usefulness in development of genuine participation of people, bottom-up strategies, self-reliance, capacity building, and egalitarian and empowering partnerships. They also delve into hitherto neglected aspects of social development related to preparing personnel for social development work, ethical imperatives and a new social development paradigm. The world’s contemporary problems persist in part because the social development approach in its comprehensive form has not been planned and implemented at local, national and global levels. Social Development presents the optimistic argument that the application of social development ideas can help create a world in which almost all people’s wellbeing can be significantly enhanced.

Author : Richard A. Gabriel
Publisher : Potomac Books, Inc.
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781597978484

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Man and Wound in the Ancient World by Richard A. Gabriel Pdf

Examines the fascinating role of medicine in ancient military cultures; Shows how the ancients understood the body, patched up their warriors, and sent them back into battle; Reveals medical secrets lost during the Dark Ages; Explores how ancient civilizations' technologies have influenced modern medical practices

Author : Joseph M. Bryant
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791430413

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Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece by Joseph M. Bryant Pdf

An exercise in cultural sociology, Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece seeks to explicate the dynamic currents of classical Hellenic ethics and social philosophy by situating those idea-complexes in their socio-historical and intellectual contexts. Central to this enterprise is a comprehensive historical-sociological analysis of the Polis form of social organization, which charts the evolution of its basic institutions, roles, statuses, and class relations. From the Dark Age period of "genesis" on to the Hellenistic era of "eclipse" by the emergent forces of imperial patrimonialism, Polis society promoted and sustained corresponding normative codes which mobilized and channeled the requisite emotive commitments and cognitive judgments for functional proficiency under existing conditions of life. The aristocratic warrior-ethos canonized in the Homeric epics; the civic ideology of equality and justice espoused by reformist lawgivers and poets; the democratization of status honor and martial virtue that attended the shift to hoplite warfare; the philosophical exaltation of the Polis-citizen bond as found in the architectonic visions of Plato and Aristotle; and the subsequent retreat from civic virtues and the interiorization of value articulated by the Skeptics, Epicureans, and Stoics, new age philosophies in a world remade by Alexander's conquests--these are the key phases in the evolving currents of Hellenic moral discourse, as structurally framed by transformations within the institutional matrix of Polis society.

Author : Helmut K. Anheier,Mark Juergensmeyer
Publisher : SAGE Publications
Page : 2073 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412994224

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Encyclopedia of Global Studies by Helmut K. Anheier,Mark Juergensmeyer Pdf

"With all entries followed by cross-references and further reading lists, this current resource is ideal for high school and college students looking for connecting ideas and additional sources on them. The work brings together the many facets of global studies into a solid reference tool and will help those developing and articulating an ideological perspective." — Library Journal The Encyclopedia of Global Studies is the reference work for the emerging field of global studies. It covers both transnational topics and intellectual approaches to the study of global themes, including the globalization of economies and technologies; the diaspora of cultures and dispersion of peoples; the transnational aspects of social and political change; the global impact of environmental, technological, and health changes; and the organizations and issues related to global civil society. Key Themes: • Global civil society • Global communications, transportation, technology • Global conflict and security • Global culture, media • Global demographic change • Global economic issues • Global environmental and energy issues • Global governance and world order • Global health and nutrition • Global historical antecedents • Global justice and legal issues • Global religions, beliefs, ideologies • Global studies • Identities in global society Readership: Students and academics in the fields of politics and international relations, international business, geography and environmental studies, sociology and cultural studies, and health.

Author : Joy McCorriston
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521768511

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Pilgrimage and Household in the Ancient Near East by Joy McCorriston Pdf

Examines the continuity of traditions over millennia in the Near East by focusing on the traditions of pilgrimage and household.

Author : Eric Carlton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317651727

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Ideology and Social Order (RLE Social Theory) by Eric Carlton Pdf

Truly interdisciplinary work between Sociology and History is are, because one discipline usually exploits the concerns or data of the other. Eric Carlton, however, has succeeded in bringing together the distinctive orientations of sociology and ancient history into a clearly written discussion of concerns crucial to both disciplines. Based on a comparative analysis or two pre-industrial civilisations, those of Ancient Egypt and Classical Athens, the study is primarily concerned with three issues. The first is the relationship between belief and action: does belief (intellectualised as ideology) affect or determine social behaviour? Second, the author examines the ways in which belief contributes to stability and ‘good order’ in society, and asks to what extent such factors as social status and social change are related to institutionalised mechanisms of social control. Finally, he indicates possible sociological frameworks or models which are ideological rather than stratificatory, whereby complex pre-industrial systems might be analysed. By analysing the societies of Ancient Egypt and Classical Athens in institutional terms, Eric Carlton examines the potency and pervasiveness of the ideological factor and shows that it is a persistent and determinative feature of this type of society.

Author : Barry Gordon,S. Todd Lowry
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 621 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-03-20
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9789004450318

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Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice by Barry Gordon,S. Todd Lowry Pdf

On March 17, 2015, Brill was informed that the article by Francisco Gómez Camacho S. J., "Later Scholastics: Spanish Economic Thought in the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries," in Ancient and Medieval Economic Ideas and Concepts of Social Justice, ed. S. Todd Lowry and Barry Gordon (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 503-561 suffers from serious citation problems and that in some cases the original sources are never mentioned at all. It goes without saying that Brill strongly disapproves of such practices, which represent a serious breach of publication integrity. Brill condemns any violation of the authors' rights and the copyrights of the publishers, and distances itself from these practices. As a result Brill cannot stand behind the noted material as originally contained in this volume and for these reasons formally retracts the article by Francisco Gómez Camacho and also the volume. The volume will no longer be available in its current form. (Blurb: 13 scholars contribute to this survey of past discussions of the workings of economic structures and of justice in interpersonal relations, cultural institutions and the social order. They investigate the sources in each historic period from the world of the Old Testament and the ancient Greeks through to Spanish scholasticism and its offshoots in the Spanish Americas of the 18th century and relate the ideas of writers from the past to modern discussions.)

Author : K D Irani,Morris Silver
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1995-10-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313031113

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Social Justice in the Ancient World by K D Irani,Morris Silver Pdf

This edited collection focuses on the problem of social justice, or, more particularly, how the demand for social justice was articulated and implemented in ancient civilizations, including, from east to west, the Chinese, Indian, Iranian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Israelite, Egyptian, Greek, and Roman. These essays are supplemented by discussions of the functioning of social justice in early and medieval Islam and in the postmedieval Anglo-Saxon world. The volume contains extended discussions of specific legal regulations, royal edicts, and socioeconomic practices in the various civilizations, and examinations of their social, political, and economic consequences. Written by leading scholars in their respective fields, this volume will be of great interest to researchers dealing with the ancient world and the evolution of political philosophy and legal and economic rights.

Author : John Fordyce (M.A.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1888
Category : Christian sociology
ISBN : UOM:39015063632825

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The New Social Order by John Fordyce (M.A.) Pdf

Author : Isidro Morales,Guillermo De los Reyes,Paul Rich
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1999-09
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029076325

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Civil Society and Democratization by Isidro Morales,Guillermo De los Reyes,Paul Rich Pdf

At the end of the Cold War, a renewed interest in civil society emerged. Today, civil society, trust, democratization, social capital, and volunteerism are a primary focus among the social sciences. The end of the Cold War meant such issues in the social sciences, neglected during many years of military confrontation, came back into prominence. Voluntary groups are being given large roles, and the state is being challenged by them. The search is on for ways to encourage democracy. Free trade and globalization are part of the equation, but much attention is being focused on the role of NGOs (non-governmental organizations). The claim is that without a healthy voluntary sector, the long-term survival of a democratic society is doubtful. Civil Society and Democratization, a special issue of THE ANNALS, features articles written by both domestic and international scholars on this ever growing area of discussion. Articles in this issue cover these important topics: · Debates on civil society both in the United States and abroad · Civil society and political elections · Religion and civic engagement · Civil society and volunteerism This special issue is a comprehensive discussion of how political confidence is built and eroded in a world that unimaginable only ten years ago. It is an indispensable guide to the problems of sustaining the gains made by democracy since the collapse of the Soviet Union and will be of great interest to academics and professionals concerned with processes of social change.