Imagined communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism

Our possessions are a major contributor to and reflection of our identities A variety of evidence is presented supporting this simple and compelling premise Related streams of research are identified and drawn upon in developing this concept and implications are derived for consumer behavior Because the construct of extended self involves consumer behavior rather than buyer behavior, it appears to be a much richer construct than previous formulations positing a relationship between self-concept and consumer brand choice

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Possessions and the extended self.

Introduction 1. Woman's Place in Man's Life Cycle 2. Images of Relationship 3. Concepts of Self and Morality 4. Crisis and Transition 5. Women's Rights and Women's Judgment 6. Visions of Maturity References Index of Study Participants General Index

In a Different Voice. Psychological Theory and Women’s Development. Cambridge, MA (Harvard University Press) 1982.

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Phenomenology of perception.

We may not be able to make you love reading, but archaeology of knowledge will lead you to love reading starting from now. Book is the window to open the new world. The world that you want is in the better stage and level. World will always guide you to even the prestige stage of the life. You know, this is some of how reading will give you the kindness. In this case, more books you read more knowledge you know, but it can mean also the bore is full.

The archaeology of knowledge

The Futures of Globalization

Religion and Social Theory: A Materialist Perspective.

L'auteur part de la constatation que la sociologie de la religion a manque de bases theoriques dans ses developpe ments recents. S'inspirant de R. Stark, il met en valeur l'im portance de l'experience religieuse comme un des elements constituants du fait religieux. Il distingue l'experience reli gieuse, confirmant une croyance de l'experience de type « revelation ». Il note la relation entre l'intensite du premier mode d'experience et le degre d'encouragement de la societe ou du groupe religieux.Il y a une relation entre l'experience et les deux autres elements d'une religion : le rituel et les croyances. Le rituel fonctionne comme une invitation a rencontrer le sacre, et une certaine experience en est attendue. Cependant, le rituel est aussi une contrainte sur l'individu. En cas de changement social rapide, l'experience deborde les frontieres du rituel. Rituel et experience sont, selon l'auteur, deux dimensions universelles, partiellement en harmonie et partiellement en tension.Les croyances peuvent etre...

Belief, Ritual and Experience: the case of Methodism:

Das Konzept „offener“ und „geschlossener“ sozialer Beziehungen hat Max Weber in Abgrenzung zu Karl Marx entwickelt und darauf hingewiesen, dass Schliesung nicht nur auf Klasse sondern ebenso auf Kaste, Abstammung und Geschlecht sowie ethnischen und religiosen Charakteristika beruhen kann. Fur Webers Vorstellung von Schliesung ist sein Verstandnis sozialer Statusgruppen entscheidend: Wahrend Schichtung mit der Monopolisierung ideeller oder materieller Guter und Chancen zusammenhangt, bezieht sich soziale Schliesung auf die Situation, in der eine dominierende soziale Gruppe ihre Position gegenuber anderen sozialen Gruppen produziert und reproduziert, indem sie mittels verschiedener Strategien ihr Monopol uber okonomische, politische und kulturelle Ressourcen sichert. Schliesung stellt damit eine Methode dar, durch die es im Prozess des Wettstreits um knappe Guter einer sozialen Gruppe gelingt, gegenuber einer anderen einen Vorteil zu erringen und das Monopol uber bedeutende Ressourcen zu erlangen.

Generationen und soziale Schließung. Die britische Nachkriegsgeneration

Problems of defining such terms as ‘society’, ‘the social’, and ‘the social system’ remain an ongoing bane of social theory in general and sociology more specifically. This article is located in the context of recent debates that ‘society’ as an empirical reality and ‘society’ as a concept is in crisis. We begin by briefly reviewing sociological understandings of ‘society’ and noting the ‘death of society’ thesis in recent social theory. In an attempt to extend this debate beyond naive proclamations of the ‘end of society’, we argue – in an exploratory and provisional manner – that the bulk of sociological discourses on the ‘social’ can be located within one of the following categories or registers: (1) society as structure; (2) society as solidarity; and (3) society as creation. These three registers of the social are briefly sketched in the remainder of the article. This argument arises from a larger ‘work in progress’ on the logics of the social.

Bryan S. Turner

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The Futures of Globalization

Religion and Social Theory: A Materialist Perspective.

Belief, Ritual and Experience: the case of Methodism:

Generationen und soziale Schließung. Die britische Nachkriegsgeneration

Three versions of the social