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

Legal Pluralism and Shari’a Law

Books under review in this essay: China's Compliance in Global Affairs. Trade, Arms Control, Environmental Protection, Human Rights. Series on Contemporary China, by Gerald Chan. New Jersey: World ...

Rule of Virtue: China and Human Rights

Asia and Europe in Globalization. Continents, Regions and Nations

Book reviewed in this article:



Max Weber, a skeleton key Randall Collins, Sage, Beverly Hills



Weberian Sociological Theory Randall Collins, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge



Society David Frisby and Derek Sayer, Ellis Horwood, Chichester, and Tavistock, London



Reason and Freedom in Sociological Thought Frank Hearn, Allen & Unwin, Boston



Weber and the Marxist World Johannes Weiss, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and New York

Classical Sociology and its Legacy

The chapter provides a brief historical overview of the recent history of the sociology of Islam. Unlike the historical and anthropological study of Islam, the sociology of Islam had a late start around the middle of the last century. The study of Islam has been controversial being heavily influenced by political events in the West such as 9/11, the invasion of Afghanistan and the rise of ISIS. Much of the debate has been dominated by Edward Said’s influential Orientalism (1978). Although Said’s work offered an important critique of western understanding of the Orient, his focus was primarily on the humanities rather than social science. I call more recent scholarship ‘Post-Orientalism’, because it includes the study Islamic communities in the West and not only the Middle East and Asia. Indeed Islam is now studied as a global religion. However, much of the sociological research has been concentreated on examples of Islamophobia. I refer to this research as advocacy rather than science in part because it obscures the many examples of successful Muslim communites in the secular West. I conclude with a modest proposal for the integration of the study of Islam into the main body of comparative and historical sociology paying attention to the legacies of Marshall G.S. Hodgson’s The Venture of Islam, Karl Jasper’s work in the so-called Axial Age religions, and Robert Bellah’s Religion in Human Evolution.

Bryan S. Turner

Papers

Legal Pluralism and Shari’a Law

Rule of Virtue: China and Human Rights

Asia and Europe in Globalization. Continents, Regions and Nations

Classical Sociology and its Legacy

Islam and Post-orientalism: Debates Concerning Comparative and Historical Sociology