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"Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems. The imaginative use of data helps to bring order into what might otherwise be considered a speculative volume.The purpose of The Political Systems of Empires is to apply sociological concepts to the analysis of historical societies through the comparative analysis of a special type of political system. This analysis does not purport to be historical or descriptive. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems."--Provided by publisher.

This book is the analysis of the civilizational and historical context of the development of the Great Modern Revolutions; their relations to modernity, to the civilization of modernity, and to the development of multiple modernities; and the fate of revolutionary symbolism and dynamics in modern regimes, in the continually changing civilization of modernity, its dynamics and tribulations

This volume brings together several of Prof. S.N. Eisenstadt's essays written over the years on Jewish history and identity. The major argument of the essays follows the Weberian view of Jewish historical experience as that of a distinct civilization, as a distinct Great Religion, the first monotheistic civilization - without, however, accepting many of Weber's concrete analyses. The core of the argument that underlies these essays is, that the best way to understand the Jewish experience is to look on Jews not just as a religious or ethnic group, nation or "people", although they have been all of these, but as bearers of a distinct civilization. These essays examine the historical experience of the Jewish people and communities in ancient medieval and modern times in the framework of such civilizational analysis in which special attention is given to the analysis of Israeli society and to the continual changing place of Israel in a central component of Jewish identity, in line with the different historical experience and collective agendas of the Jewish communities

This collection of essays provides an analysis of the dynamics of Civilizations. The processes of globalization and of world history are described from a comparative sociological point of view in a Weberian tradition. These essays were written between 1974 and 2002 by one of the most eminent sociologists of today. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129931)

Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Multiple Modernities -- Modernity: One, None, or Many? European Origins and Modernity as a Global Condition -- Communism and Modernity -- Snapshots of Islamic Modernities -- Islam and the Languages of Modernity -- Modernity and Politics in India -- Transnational Movements, Diaspora, and Multiple Modernities -- Implications of the Rise of "Confucian" East A -- The Pattern of American Modernity from the Revolution to the Civil War -- From Incomplete Modernity to World Modernity -- Index

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction to the Transaction Edition -- INTRODUCTION Sociological Analysis and Youth Rebellion -- Foreword -- CHAPTER I: Age Groups and Social Structure: The Problem -- CHAPTER II: Some Types of Age Groups -- CHAPTER III: Age Groups in Nonkinship (Universalistic) Societies -- CHAPTER IV: Specialization and the Structure of Age Groups -- CHAPTER V: Age Groups in Familistic Societies -- CHAPTER VI: The Functions of Age Groups in the Social System (Integrative and Deviant Age Groups) -- CHAPTER VII: Archetypal Patterns of Youth -- CHAPTER VIII: Contemporary Student Rebellions-Intellectual Rebellion and Generational Conflict -- CHAPTER IX: Youth, Generational Consciousness, and Historical Change -- Notes -- Index

Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Table Of Contents -- Contents -- Introduction -- Jewish History as the History of Jewish Civilizations -- The Distinctive Characteristics of Jewish Civilization in a Historical and Comparative Perspective -- Basic Themes and Institutional Formations of Exilic Jewish Civilization: The Inter-Civilizational Perspective -- The Disintegration of the Medieval Jewish Civilizational Framework in the Modern Periodand the Integration of Jews in European Societies -- The Incorporation of the Jews in the United States -- Modern Jewish National Movements and the Zionist Movement -- The Formation and Transformation of Israeli Society -- The United States and Israel: An Essay in Comparative Analysis -- Concluding Observations: The Jewish Experience in the Modern and Contemporary Eras -- Back Matter -- Notes -- Index.

In the following pages I shall present some comments on the relevance of research on Latin America and their patterns of citizenship, as seen in the context of multiple modernities. The idea of multiple modernities is simple but problematic (for a comprehensive analysis, see Eisenstadt, 2007). The basic idea is that as most of the world has become or is becoming modern, the old dichotomy between traditional and modern societies is no longer valid or no longer interesting. Of course, there are still some companies that perhaps can be described as traditional, such as Saudi Arabia and many traditional sectors of the societies of Central Asia, but most of the companies are, for better or worse, intertwined with currencies, towards modernity. However, these currencies are not equal but different, being the product of complex encounters between variable appropriation of political and institutional programs of modernity and its ongoing reinterpretation in the light of different traditions, crises and ruptures. And the important point for our discussion is that it is not just the result of the expansion of modernity in Western Europe to Africa or Asia. It all started in fact with European expansion that occurred in the West and beyond Europe, in the Americas. The first multiple currencies are the US and the different societies of Central America, South America and the Caribbean, defined as 'Latin America' since the mid-nineteenth century (see also Eisenstadt, 2002). Adapted from the source document.

In this chapter we would like to analyze the crystallization of institutional patterns distinctive of the Americas, including the first cases of 'multiple modernities'. The notion of 'multiple modernities' denotes a certain perspective of the contemporary world-indeed, the history and characteristics of the modern era that goes against the views that have long prevailed in the academic discourse in general. This notion is opposed to the perspective of the theories 'classic' of modernization and convergence, prevalent in the 1950 industrial societies and, indeed, opposes the classic sociological analysis of Marx, Durkheim and (largely measure) even Weber, at least from a reading of his work. Everyone assumed, so out of fashion just implied, that the cultural program of modernity that developed in modern Europe, and institutional basic notions that there emerged, ultimately dominate in all modern societies and in process of modernization; with the expansion of modernity would prevail worldwide. Adapted from the source document.

In this lecture given at the Congress of the German Sociological Society in November 2004 in Munchen in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the publication of the Max Weber's book "Protestant Ethic" the author put the question, what is the significance, if any, of Weber's comparative civilizational analysis for the analysis of modernity, especially of the contemporary world of multiple modernities and intensive globalization. Answering this question, he uses Weberian conception of axial civilization. In conclusion he says that his own analysis, while going beyond Weber, builds very much on his vision and insight, although the concrete contours of the contemporary situation naturally differs greatly from those of the societies Weber studied.