Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age
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Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age

  1. 496 pages
  2. English
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Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age

About this book

In this pioneering volume, leading international scholars argue for the development of a new approach to social theory that draws on regional studies for the conduct of comparative analysis in the global age. Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age moves beyond facile generalizations based on the historical experience of modernization in the West by highlighting differences rather than similarities and contrasts rather than commonalities, and by examining civilizational processes and culturally specific developmental patterns distinctive of different world regions. Essays combine comparative and historical sociology with civilizational analysis and the study of multiple and alternative modernities. Different patterns of modernization are compared within the framework of global/local compressed communication and interaction that results from globalization. The introductory chapter puts the present effort in the context of the seminal work of three generations of comparative sociologists, and what follows is a penetrating analysis of modernization and globality, opening the way for rectifying the erasure of the historical experience of a very sizeable portion of humankind from the foundation of social theory.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies
  6. Preface
  7. Introduction: The Challenge of Integrating Social Theory and Regional Studies
  8. Part I: Comparative Sociology, Civilizational Analysis, and Regional Studies
  9. Part II: Historicizing Axial Shifts and Patterns of Evolution and Modernization
  10. Part III: World Regions, Colonial and Subaltern Modernities in the Global Periphery
  11. Contributors
  12. Index
  13. Back Cover