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Intimations of methodological nationalism in classical sociology

23 Feb 2016-European Journal of Social Theory (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 19, Iss: 4, pp 468-484
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that classical sociology has already glimpsed the possibility of going beyond the nation-state as a unit of analysis, having operated above all with the notion of social rather than ‘national’, its categories are transnational and studies have not reified it within its political boundaries.
Abstract: Nowadays, the widespread view is that classical sociology is tainted with ‘methodological nationalism and it would appear that there has been a significant overlap between social and political space. We disagree with this point of view for three reasons: (1) by dealing with the global world, classical sociology has already glimpsed the possibility of going beyond the nation-state as a unit of analysis; (2) having operated above all with the notion of ‘social’ rather than ‘national’, its categories are transnational; and (3) when classical sociology has dealt with national society, studies have not reified it within its political boundaries. Consequently, in our opinion, classical sociology highlights both analytical categories that go beyond the ontology of the nation-state as well as new socio-political forms defined within the trajectory of modernity under the pressure of globalization processes.
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01 Jan 1983
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a typology of nationalisms in industrial and agro-literature societies, and a discussion of the difficulties of true nationalism in industrial societies.
Abstract: Series Editor's Preface. Introduction by John Breuilly. Acknowledgements. 1. Definitions. State and nation. The nation. 2. Culture in Agrarian Society. Power and culture in the agro-literature society. The varieties of agrarian rulers. 3. Industrial Society. The society of perpetual growth. Social genetics. The age of universal high culture. 4. The Transition to an Age of Nationalism. A note on the weakness of nationalism. Wild and garden culture. 5. What is a Nation. The course of true nationalism never did run smooth. 6. Social Entropy and Equality in Industrial Society. Obstacles to entropy. Fissures and barriers. A diversity of focus. 7. A Typology of Nationalisms. The varieties of nationalist experience. Diaspora nationalism. 8. The Future of Nationalism. Industrial culture - one or many?. 9. Nationalism and Ideology. Who is for Nuremberg?. One nation, one state. 10. Conclusion. What is not being said. Summary. Select bibliography. Bilbliography of Ernest Gellner's writing: Ian Jarvie. Index

2,912 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, Giddens' recent study on class structure and class consciousness has been examined, and the authors attempt to critically appraise liberal, Marxist and post-industrial theories of class, and make some positive contributions.
Abstract: It is not accidental that questions of class structure and class consciousness have recently become central concerns of both academic social scientists and Marxists: contemporary reality has promptly disposed of the various announcements of the obsolescence of class conflict made by the former while contemporary turmoil has fractured most shibboleths invoked by the latter. Thus, it may be useful to examine Giddens' recent study which does claim to break new ground. This ambitious book attempts to critically appraise liberal, Marxist and “post-industrial” theories of class, and to make some positive contributions. It contains interesting insights into the differences between some of the “advanced societies,” as well as abundant material contrasting various theories.

274 citations

01 Jan 2016
TL;DR: In this article, a book called atlantic crossings social politics in a progressive age was downloaded from the library and people were faced with some infectious bugs inside their desktop computer instead of reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon.
Abstract: Thank you for downloading atlantic crossings social politics in a progressive age. Maybe you have knowledge that, people have look numerous times for their favorite novels like this atlantic crossings social politics in a progressive age, but end up in harmful downloads. Rather than reading a good book with a cup of tea in the afternoon, instead they are facing with some infectious bugs inside their desktop computer.

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TL;DR: Wicker as discussed by the authors rewrote Nationalism and Ethnicity: The Struggle for Meaning and Order in Europe, a book about the history of the European continent, by Hans-Rudolf Wicker.
Abstract: Rethinking Nationalism and Ethnicity: The Struggle for Meaning and Order in Europe. Hans-Rudolf Wicker. ed. Oxford: Berg, 1997. 332 pp.

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01 Jan 1996
TL;DR: The Rise of the Network Society as discussed by the authors is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information, which is based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world.
Abstract: From the Publisher: This ambitious book is an account of the economic and social dynamics of the new age of information. Based on research in the USA, Asia, Latin America, and Europe, it aims to formulate a systematic theory of the information society which takes account of the fundamental effects of information technology on the contemporary world. The global economy is now characterized by the almost instantaneous flow and exchange of information, capital and cultural communication. These flows order and condition both consumption and production. The networks themselves reflect and create distinctive cultures. Both they and the traffic they carry are largely outside national regulation. Our dependence on the new modes of informational flow gives enormous power to those in a position to control them to control us. The main political arena is now the media, and the media are not politically answerable. Manuel Castells describes the accelerating pace of innovation and application. He examines the processes of globalization that have marginalized and now threaten to make redundant whole countries and peoples excluded from informational networks. He investigates the culture, institutions and organizations of the network enterprise and the concomitant transformation of work and employment. He points out that in the advanced economies production is now concentrated on an educated section of the population aged between 25 and 40: many economies can do without a third or more of their people. He suggests that the effect of this accelerating trend may be less mass unemployment than the extreme flexibilization of work and individualization of labor, and, in consequence, a highly segmented socialstructure. The author concludes by examining the effects and implications of technological change on mass media culture ("the culture of real virtuality"), on urban life, global politics, and the nature of time and history. Written by one of the worlds leading social thinkers and researchers The Rise of the Network Society is the first of three linked investigations of contemporary global, economic, political and social change. It is a work of outstanding penetration, originality, and importance.

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  • ...In other words, globalization concerns the objective infrastructure aspect as opposed to the cultural element of a well-defined phenomenon per se of which there is a subjective awareness (Robertson, 1987, 1992; Featherstone, 1990; Giddens, 1990; Ritzer, 1993; Albrow, 1996; Castells, 1996; Smelser 1997)....

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  • ...…it seems to have confused social space with political national space, delimited arbitrarily (Mann, 1986; Agnew and Corbridge, 1995; Albrow, 1996; Castells, 1996; Beck, [1997] 2000, 2002; Smelser, 1997; Calhoun, 1999; Urry, 2000; Wagner, 2001); (2) as national historians Corresponding author:…...

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  • ...…Schiller, 2000; Wimmer and Glick Schiller, 2002, 2003; Amelina et al., 2012), and sociologists (Mann, 1986; Agnew and Corbridge, 1995; Albrow, 1996; Castells, 1996; Beck, [1997] 2000, 2002; Smelser, 1997; Urry, 2000; Wagner, 2001), since they are associated with the current ‘crisis of…...

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  • ...Weber not only viewed nationalism as the opportunity for defining his political position in Wilhelm’s Germany (see Weber’s Freiburg Prolusion in 1895: Der Nationalstaat und die Volkswirtschaftpolitik), but also for reaffirming that values (and interests) move individual and collective action....

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  • ...Weber not only viewed nationalism as the opportunity for defining his political position in Wilhelm’s Germany (see Weber’s Freiburg Prolusion in 1895: Der Nationalstaat und die Volkswirtschaftpolitik), but also for reaffirming that values (and interests) move individual and collective action. In other words, nationalism is regarded as a cultural form driving entire populations to action (Weber, [1922b] 1978: 926; see Gellner, 1983: 61; Anderson, 1992: 195)....

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01 Jan 1990
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.
Abstract: Part I:. Introduction. The Discontinuities of Modernity. Security and Danger, Trust and Risk. Sociology and Modernity. Modernity, Time and Space. Disembedding. Trust. The Reflexivity of Modernity. Modernity and Post-- Modernity?. Summary. Part II:. The Institutional Dimensions of Modernity. The Globalizing of Modernity. Two Theoretical Perspectives. Dimensions of Globalization. Part III:. Trust and Modernity. Trust in Abstract Systems. Trust and Expertise. Trust and Ontological Security. The Pre--Modern and Modern. Part IV:. Abstract Systems and the Transformation of Intimacy. Trust and Personal Relations. Trust and Personal Identity. Risk and Danger in the Modern World. Risk and Ontological Security. Adaptive Reactions. A Phenomonology of Modernity. Deskilling and Reskilling in Everyday Life. Objections to Post--Modernity. Part V:. Riding the Juggernaut. Utopian Realism. Future Orientations. The Role of Social Movements. Post--Modernity. Part VI: . Is Modernity and Western Project?. Concluding Observations. Notes.

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"Intimations of methodological natio..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…words, globalization concerns the objective infrastructure aspect as opposed to the cultural element of a well-defined phenomenon per se of which there is a subjective awareness (Robertson, 1987, 1992; Featherstone, 1990; Giddens, 1990; Ritzer, 1993; Albrow, 1996; Castells, 1996; Smelser 1997)....

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01 Jan 1895
TL;DR: The Rules of the Sociological Method as discussed by the authors is one of the most important contributions to the field of sociology, still debated among scholars today, and has been a focal point of sociology since its original publication.
Abstract: First published in 1895: Emile Durkheim's masterful work on the nature and scope of sociology--now with a new introduction and improved translation by leading scholar Steven Lukes.The Rules of the Sociological Method is among the most important contributions to the field of sociology, still debated among scholars today. Through letters, arguments, and commentaries on significant debates, Durkheim confronted critics, clarified his own position, and defended the objective scientific method he applied to his study of humans. This updated edition offers an introduction and extra notes as well as a new translation to improve the clarity and accessibility of this essential work. In the introduction, Steven Lukes, author of the definitive biography Emile Durkheim: His Life and Work, spells out Durkheim's intentions, shows the limits of Durkheim's view of sociology, and presents its political background and significance. Making use of the various texts in this volume and Durkheim's later work, Lukes discusses how Durkheim's methodology was modified or disregarded in practice--and how it is still relevant today. With substantial notes on context, this user-friendly edition will greatly ease the task of students and scholars working with Durkheim's method--a view that has been a focal point of sociology since its original publication. The Rules of the Sociological Method will engage a new generation of readers with Durkheim's rich contribution to the field."

3,876 citations

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27 Jul 1992
TL;DR: Globalization as a Problem The Cultural Turn Mapping the Global Condition World-Systems Theory, Culture and Images of World Power Japanese Globality and Japanese Religion The Universalism-Particularism Issue "Civilization," Civility and the Civilizing Process Globalization Theory and Civilization Analysis Globality, Modernity and the Issue of Postmodernity Globalization and the Nostalgic Paradigm 'The Search for Fundamentals' in Global Perspective Concluding Reflections
Abstract: Globalization as a Problem The Cultural Turn Mapping the Global Condition World-Systems Theory, Culture and Images of World Power Japanese Globality and Japanese Religion The Universalism-Particularism Issue 'Civilization,' Civility and the Civilizing Process Globalization Theory and Civilization Analysis Globality, Modernity and the Issue of Postmodernity Globalization and the Nostalgic Paradigm 'The Search for Fundamentals' in Global Perspective Concluding Reflections

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  • ...Taylor J P (1996) Embedded statism and the social sciences: opening up to new spaces....

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  • ...…analytical framework of reference, considered as inadequate for understanding facts that are ever more transnational and ever less international (Robertson, 1992; Robinson, 1998; Beck, [2004] 2006), from those who, on the contrary, are convinced that the nation-state is still the basic unit of…...

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  • ...In this respect, Durkheim, Weber and Simmel are enlightening. It is well known that in The Rules of Sociological Method ([1895] 1982: 52) Durkheim identified the actual domain of the then-emerging sociological discipline in social physiology, or in other words the order of events that ‘consist of manners of acting, thinking and feeling external to the individual, which are invested with a coercive power by virtue of which they exercise control over him’. This meant as Durkheim specifies in his work, phenomena, the substratum of which is ‘society’ (or ‘group’), not to be confused with organic phenomena (the domain of medicine and biology) nor with psychic phenomena (psychology), the substrata of which, on the contrary, derive from the ‘organism’ or from the ‘mind’ respectively. It is precisely this difference that constitutes the domain of sociology for Durkheim, a distinct and objective reality, the specificity of which, in the manner of the Comtean tradition, becomes for him a permanent acquisition of the social sciences, of which the ‘national’ is an integral part. This reality is precisely the ‘social’ (Durkheim, 1900). Weber’s conception of the ‘social’ differs from that of Durkheim. It should be framed within his particular conception of social science, i.e. something that ‘cannot tell anyone what he should do – but rather what he can do – and under certain circumstances – what he wishes to do’ (Weber, [1922a] 1949: 54)....

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TL;DR: A traditional society is one whose structure is developed within limited production functions, based on pre-Newtonian science and technology, and on pre Newtonian attitudes towards the physical world as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: First, the traditional society. A traditional society is one whose structure is developed within limited production functions, based on pre-Newtonian science and technology, and on pre-Newtonian attitudes towards the physical world. Newton is here used as a symbol for that watershed in history when men came widely to believe that the external world was subject to a few knowable laws, and was systematically capable of productive manipulation.

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"Intimations of methodological natio..." refers background in this paper

  • ...…– except for the comparative and internationalist studies on the modernization and development of peripheral countries starting in the 1960s (e.g. Rostow, 1960; Lagos Matus, 1963; Galtung, 1966; Horowitz, 1966; Parsons, 1971) – few essays on societal interaction as a global condition per se…...

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