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Machine generated contents note:pt. IPerspective of Historical Sociology (By Way of Introduction) --Path to Historical Sociology --History and Sociology --Theoretical Dilemmas --pt. IISocieties and the Processes of Change --Dimension of Time --Temporalized Sociology --Division of Historical Time --History as Life's Teacher --Social Change -- Different Approaches to its Observation and Analysis --Theories of Cyclical Development --Theories of Developmental Discontinuity and Breaks --Materialist Conception of History --Revolution --Collective Actors of Social Change --Theory of Breaks --Theory of Linear Continuous Development --Sequential and Processual Explanatory Models --Evolutionary Theory --Some New Approaches to the Issue of Social Change --Crisis as a Challenge --Etymology and Semantics of the Concept of Crisis --Risk, Crisis, Catastrophe, and Collapse --One Concept -- Many Manifestations --Plurality of Explanatory Frameworks --Current Issues --pt. IIIIdeas of the Sociological "Founders" --Sociology as a Science of Social Statics and Dynamics --Evolution of the Social Organism --Historical Materialism --Predecessors --Thinker Who Wished to Change the World --Explaining the Emergence of Capitalism --Digression on the Early rationalization of time --Sociology as a Science about Social Facts --Digression on Collective Memory --pt. IVSystems, Structures, and Functions --Social System and Evolution --Inequality, Stratification, Mobility --Theories of Conflict --Social Functions of Conflicts --Social Conflict in Modern Society --Appendix to Conflict Theory --Structuralism and Poststructuralism --Invariable Structures --Variable Structures --Functional Differentiation and Its Consequences --World-System --pt. VCivilizational Analysis --Civilizing Process --Paradigms of Human Condition --Civilizations of the Axial Age --pt. VIModern World, Its Formative Processes and Transformations --Pathways to Modern Society --Citizens and the State --Different Types of Social Revolution --Revolutions in the International Context --Formation of Modern Nations --Nationalism and High Culture --National Interest --Dark Side of Modernization --Banality of Evil --Advocate for the Open Society --Critique of Ideological Myths and Totalitarian Tendencies --Wars, Conflicts, and Violence --Coercion and Violence --Networks of Power --From the First Modernity to the Second Modernity --Story of Modernization Theory --Transformations of Contemporary Societies --pt. VIIHuman Individual and History --Individualization in the Perspective of Historical -- Sociological Thinking --Individualism and Holism --Homo Sociologicus --Human Individual and Its Place in History.

Introduction: young Muslim women coming into the light -- Reconfiguring the ideal young Muslim woman -- Gaining visibility, occupying visuality -- The 'Muslimwoman' and self-transformation -- Be entrepreneurial! The productive pious feminine subject in neoliberal Indonesia -- Coda: being young Muslim women in the midst of change.

"This book, based on extensive original research, examines the factors which lead to successful innovation in Chinese industry. Considering in detail the large and important Chinese mining industry, it argues that innovation is key for success in all industries, not just new "tech" industries. It reveals how the interaction of universities, governments and industries is highly significant, considers how some parts of the industry, such as the mining and mineral processing stages, are more innovative than other stages, such as prospecting and manufacturing, and suggests that this is explained both by the distance between final products and the market and commercialisation and by the intensity of the interaction between the industrial company and the university or research institute. Throughout, the book includes examples and case studies to highlight the points made."

Introduction / Jennifer Coates and Eyal Ben-Ari -- A question of form : dissent and the Nouvelle vague / Isolde Standish -- Negotiating sex, the bizarre, and politics : the Abe Sada incident in films / Katsuyuki Hidaka -- The four lives of Matsugorō the Lawless : agency, constraint and what is worthy of film censorship in trans-war Japan / Iris Haukamp -- Tarzan and Japan : racial portraits of a nation in Boy Kenya / Deanna T. Nardy -- Down in the dumps : Tokyo wastelands and marginalized groups in Japanese film and anime / Alisa Freedman -- Cinema at the edge of the world : visions of precarity in the films of Kumakiri Kazuyoshi / Lindsay Nelson -- How to remember 3.11? Post-Fukushima documentary and the politics of Tōhoku documentary trilogy (2011-2013) / Ran Ma -- The Japanese Self-Defence Forces and cinematic productions : resonance and reverberation in the normalization of organized state violence / Atsuko Fukuura and Eyal Ben-Ari -- Politicizing the audience? Film fans' experiences of cinema in the 1960s / Jennifer Coates -- Cinematic responses to queer aging / Yutaka Kubo.

Kinship care in an historical child protection context -- Kinship care in research : results, limitations and alternatives -- Family life in the intersection between the public and private -- Who become kinship foster parents, and why? Gender, family roles and relationships -- Kinship care in the light of family sociological perspectives -- Conclusion: Kinship care today and in the future.

Front Matter -- Introduction -- The Basic Basics. Sociology: Getting Your Head Around It -- What is Sociology, and Why Should I Care? -- Making it Up as They Went Along: The History of Sociology -- Research Methods: Because You Can't Put Society in a Test Tube -- Seeing Society Like a Sociologist. Socialization: What is ₃Culture, ₄ and Where Can I Get Some? -- Microsociology: If Life is a Game, What are the Rules? -- Caught in the Web: The Power of Networks -- Equality and Inequality in Our Diverse World. Social Stratification: We're All Equal, But Some of Us Are More Equal Than Others -- Gender and Ethnicity: I Know My Race, But Where's the Finish Line? -- Getting Religion: Faith in the Modern World -- Crime and Deviance: I Fought the Law and I Won! -- All Together Now: The Ins and Outs of Social Organization. Corporate Culture: The Study of Organizations (and Disorganizations) -- The Rules of the Game: Social Movements and Political Sociology -- Urban Sociology and Demographics: (Ain't No) Love in the Heart of the City -- Sociology and Your Life. Get Born, Get a Job, Get a Kid, Get Out of Here: The Family and the Life Course -- Future Passed: Understanding Social Change -- The Part of Tens. Ten Sociology Books That Don't Feel Like Homework -- Ten Ways to Use Sociological Insight in Everyday Life -- Ten Myths About Society Busted by Sociology -- Index -- Advertisement.

By examining the great economic and political transformations of our time, Juan Luis Manfredi-Sánchez reveals how cities and their hinterlands have become part of globalisation. The global city has joined the group of actors who develop diplomatic, political and communicative action in a manner that is de facto and lawful. Thus, the city is involved in the formulation of foreign policy at the same time that it proposes its own political agenda, which may or may not be aligned with its own country. The city thereby becomes a source of innovation in the field of diplomacy. The Covid-19 pandemic is accelerating the political and diplomatic role of cities, which have become epicentres of prevention and response in the face of this public health crisis

Vertrauenskrisen haben Konjunktur: Ob Politik, Wissenschaft oder Journalismus - kein gesellschaftliches Teilsystem bleibt von öffentlichen Misstrauensbekundungen verschont. Doch was genau meint der schillernde Begriff »Systemvertrauen« und welche Konsequenzen hat ein Mangel desselben? Malte G. Schmidt folgt diesen Fragen aus einer gesellschaftstheoretischen Perspektive. Er zeigt die sozialintegrative Bedeutung des Journalismus auf und prüft, inwieweit dieser seine Rolle als Vertrauensvermittler im neoliberalen Kapitalismus erfüllen kann. Ein ökonomisierter Journalismus - so seine These - bedingt gesellschaftliche Integrationsstörungen, die dann in Form von Autoritarismus auf ihn zurückfallen.

This book re-examines the origins of modern Mongolian nationalism, discussing nation building as sponsored by the socialist Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party and the Soviet Union and emphasizing in particular the role of the arts and the humanities. It considers the politics and society of the early revolutionary period and assesses the ways in which ideas about nationhood were constructed in a response to Soviet socialism. It goes on to analyze the consequences of socialist cultural and social transformations on pastoral, Kazakh, and other identities and outlines the implications of socialist nation building on post-socialist Mongolian national identity. Overall, Socialist and Post-Socialist Mongolia highlights how Mongolia's population of widely scattered seminomadic pastoralists posed challenges for socialist administrators attempting to create a homogenous mass nation of individual citizens who share a set of cultural beliefs, historical memories, collective symbols, and civic ideas; additionally, the book addresses the changes brought more recently by democratic governance.

This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of political, cultural and personal rupture, as well as the manifold ways in which various Jewish intellectuals, politicians (and occasionally spies!) sought to respond to these ruptures and carve out new, sometimes profound, sometimes fanciful, options of thought and action. It also delves critically into the attacks on liberal and Enlightenment humanism. In almost all the essays the fragility of things is palpably present and the book touches on some of the ironies, problematics and functions of responses to that condition. The work mirrors the author's ongoing fascination with the always fraught, fragile and creatively fecund confrontation of Jews (and others) with European modernity, its history, politics, culture and self-definition. In a time of increasing anxiety and feelings of fragility, this work may be helpful in understanding how people at an earlier (and sometimes contemporary) period sought to come to terms with a similar predicament.