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Penguin Dictionary of Sociology

Abstract: This revised and updated edition provides not only simple, one-line definitions, but also entries that discuss the issues involved in, and alternative approaches to, the central concepts, theories and writings of sociology. It is a comprehensive reference for students of school to university level. For this edition, many new definitions have been added and existing ones updated where necessary. The range of entries is wide, from advertising to critical theory, from epistemology to flexible specialization and from Saussure to working-class conservatism. There are also useful cross-references and an updated bibliography to enhance the balance to this book.

Orientalism, postmodernism, and globalism

Abstract: It is often thought that the development of capitalism and the modernization of culture have brought about a profound decline of religious belief and commitment. The history of Christianity in the last two decades appears to be a good illustration of this general process of secularization with the undermining of belief and commitment as Western cultures became industrial and urban. However, in the twentieth century we have seen that Islam continues to be a dominant force in politics and culture not only in the Orient but in Western society. In this challenging study of contemporary social theory, Bryan Turner examines the recent debate about orientalism in relation to postmodernism and the process of globalization. He provides a profound critique of many of the leading fissures in classical orientalism. His book also considers the impact of the notion of the world in sociological theory. These cultural changes and social debates also reflect important change in the status and position of intellecuals in modern culture who are threatened, not only by the levelling of mass culture, but also by the new opportunities posed by postmodernism. He takes a critical view of the role of sociology in these developments and raises important questions about the global role of English intellectuals as a social stratum. Bryan Turner's ability to combine these discussions about religion, politics, culture and intellectuals represents a remarkable integration of cultural analysis in cultural studies.

Citizenship : critical concepts

Abstract: Volume One Section 1: Theoretical Debates Section 2: The Classics Section 3: Historical Origins Volume two Section 4: Welfare and Citizenship (UK) Section 5: Ethnicity and Citizenship (USA) Section 6: State and Citizenship (Europe) Section 7: Contemporary Criticisms

Avances recientes en la Teoría del cuerpo

Abstract: En contraste con la sociologia, al cuerpo humano se le ha concedido un puesto de vital importancia en la antropologia desde el siglo XIX. Hay al menos cuatro razones que explican la importancia del cuerpo en la antropologia. La primera es el desarrollo de la antropologia filosofica, y la cuestion del cuerpo en relacion con la ontologia del hombre (la palabra "hombre" se emplea deliberadamente aqui para senalar a un genero entendido como humanidad y la posibilidad de que la clasica ciencia social fuera en si misma generada o de hecho inventara un verbo del cuerpo). Historicamente hablando, la antropologia se ha inclinado a plantear cuestiones de esencia universal de la humanidad, porque la antropologia en el contexto del colonialismo europeo forzo a dirigir el problema de los universales humanos (de la ontologia) de acuerdo con las variantes y diferencias de las relaciones sociales. el centro ontologico de la encarnacion humana ha surgido como consecuencia de un foco de universalidad.

Debate and Pseudo-Debate in Class Analysis: Some Unpromising Aspects of Goldthorpe and Marshall's Defence:

Abstract: A propos de la difficulte theorique inherente a une construction des categories de classes sociales en dehors de toute agregation avec les professions ou tout autre characteristique d'emploi. D'un cote les classes sociales sont sur-identifiees par une mesure en terme de profession qui se fait au depend de dimensions plus larges du pouvoir economique et de l'action sociale et a pour effet de reduire la classe sociale a un agregat statistique. Mais d'un autre cote une analyse fondee sur une version weberienne (gesellschaftlich) de la theorie des classes (une analyse des chances individuelles sur le marche du travail comme outil d'analyse des modeles d'inegalites economiques) demeure pertinente

Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam, by Talal Asad. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993, 355 pp. $42.50; $15.95 (paper)

Abstract: 1. Talal Asad, Genealogies of Religion: Discipline and Reasons of Power in Christianity and Islam 2. Catherine Bell, Ritual Theory, Ritual Practice 3. Peter L. Berger, The Sacred Canopy: Elements of a Sociological Theory of Religion 4. Caroline Walker Bynum, Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women 5. Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo 6. Emile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life 7. Mircea Eliade, The Sacred and the Profane: The Nature of Religion 8. Sigmund Freud, Totem and Taboo: Resemblances Between the Psychic Lives of Savages and Neurotics 9. Clifford Geertz, The Interpretation of Cultures (Chapters 1, 4, 5, 6, 7) 10. William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience 11. Charles H. Long, Significations: Signs, Symbols, and Images in the Interpretation of Religion 12. Russell T. McCutcheon, Critics not Caretakers: Redescribing the Public Study of Religion 13. Gananath Obeyesekere, Medusa’s Hair: An Essay on Personal Symbols and Religious Experience 14. Robert A. Orsi, Between Heaven and Earth: The Religious Worlds People Make and the Scholars Who Study Them 15. Kimberley C. Patton and Benjamin C. Ray, eds., A Magic Still Dwells: Comparative Religion in the Postmodern Age 16. Edward W. Said, Orientalism (just the “Introduction,” pp. 1-28) 17. Jonathan Z. Smith, Imagining Religion: From Babylon to Jonestown 18. Michael T. Taussig, The Devil and Commodity Fetishism in South America 19. Victor Turner, The Ritual Process: Structure and Anti-structure 20. Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 21. Tisa Wenger, We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom 22. Harvey Whitehouse, Modes of Religiosity: A Cognitive Theory of Religious Transmission

In Sickness and in Health: Intimacy, Health in the Ageing Process

Abstract: (1994). In Sickness and in Health: Intimacy, Health in the Ageing Process. Annual Review of Health Social Science: Vol. 4, No. 1, pp. 42-56.