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Abstract:Comparative sociology is stranded; as a result of globalization, it is losing the ground upon which it was built. In cross‐national studies, a longstanding research tradition in sociology, globalization blurs the national in material and non‐material ways, and thus erodes two fundamental principles any comparative studies need to obey: case independence and case comparability. Two familiar solutions—the nationalist approach and the globalist approach—do not work in the face of globalization. This paper argues instead that the emergent property approach and the variable approach, strategies that respect both global and national–local forces, are viable alternatives for future comparative sociologists to follow.

Abstract  The objective of this study is to explore the mechanisms of peasant political protest and social conflict in nineteenth‐century Japan. While political protest and social conflict have often been referred to as constituting two major categories of peasant unrest throughout feudal Japan, past studies on nineteenth‐century peasant uprisings, based mainly on a class conflict paradigm, did not treat them as such. This study aims at examining differential mechanisms between protest and conflict, and at assessing the applicability of the class conflict paradigm.A time‐series analysis is performed using the annual data of peasant uprisings and antecedent socioeconomic and political conditions during the period 1800‐1877. The study results strongly suggest that differential mechanisms between political protest and social conflict existed in the nineteenth‐century, and that the applicability of a class conflict paradigm is, at the very least, dubious. Based on the results, combined with historical‐contextual knowledge, an alternative explanation is also suggested.

Frontmatter --Table of Contents --Preface --1. Connecting Modernities --Part I Modernity as We Know It --2. Technology and the Texture of Modernity --3. Math and Modernity: Critical Reflections --4. Stranded Modernity --5. The (In)Compatibility of Islam with Modernity --6. The Missing Body --Part II Modernity under Fire --7. Criticism of "Colonial Modernity" through Kurdish Decolonial Approaches --8. Conflicting Modernities: Militarization and Islands --9. Project Modernity: From Anticolonialism to Decolonization --Part III In the Shadow of the Pandemic --10. Modernity and Decision-Making for Global Challenges --11. Public Health Confronts Modernity in the Shadow of the Pandemic --12. Human Identity and COVID-19 --Part IV Imagining New Global Frameworks --13. Environmentalism: A Challenge to Modernity --14. The Cognitive Immune System --15. Representative Democracy as Kitsch, and Artificial Intelligence's Promise of Emancipation --16. Subjectivation, Modernity, and Hypermodernity --17. Toward a New Global? --Index