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When history accelerates : essays on rapid social change, complexity, and creativity /
"Rapid and complex social change is of urgent concern to all human societies, but how can researchers do justice both to the objective complexities of causal relations and to subjective experiences of different types of change? The present volume focuses upon cases of 'accelerating change&...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London, UK :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Bloomsbury academic collections. History and politics in the 20th century : multidisciplinary approaches.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface and Acknowledgements; Contributors; 1 Fast Forward: The Great Transformation Globalized; SYNCHRONIC SYSTEMS AND TEMPORALITY; SOCIAL CHANGE AND REVOLUTION; ETHNOGRAPHIC KNOWLEDGE AND RESPONSIBILITY; PAUL STIRLING: A PERSONAL SYNTHESIS; NOTES; REFERENCES; 2 The Evolution of Society: A Darwinian Approach; THE HUMAN ANIMAL; DARWINISM AND EVOLUTIONISM; SOCIOLOGICAL DARWINISM; NOTES; REFERENCES; 3 Rates of Change: Weasel Words and the Indispensable in Anthropological Analysis; INTRODUCTION
- SYSTEMS, SUBSYSTEMS AND THE UNDERSTANDING OF SOCIAL CHANGEIDENTIFYING KINDS OF CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CHANGE; PERCEIVING AND MEASURING RATES OF CHANGE; SYSTEMIC CONSEQUENCES OF DIFFERENT RATES OF CHANGE; DISJUNCTIONS AND CONTRADICTIONS; RATES OF CHANGE AT DIFFERENT LEVELS OF ORGANIZATION; CONCLUSION; NOTE; REFERENCES; 4 Modelling Complexity and Change: Social Knowledge and Social Process; INTRODUCTION; ETHNOGRAPHIC RESEARCH; WEAK AND STRONG REPRESENTATIONS; ARRANGING A MARRIAGE IN URBAN PAKISTAN; ETHNOGRAPHIC SETTING; MULTIPLE DOMAINS AND CONTEXT; CHANGE BETWEEN 1982 AND 1992
- SPECIFICATIONS, EXTERNAL KNOWLEDGE AND KNOWLEDGE DISTRIBUTIONNOTES; REFERENCES; 5 Social Creativity; WHAT DOES IT PRODUCE?; WHAT ARE THE KINDS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY?; WHAT ARE THE RAW MATERIALS?; WHAT ARE THE RESULTS OF SOCIAL CREATIVITY LIKE?; REFERENCES; 6 Rustic Chivalry: Variations in Honour Ideologies in Italy and the Limits of Historical Explanation; INTRODUCTION; HONOUR CRIMES; THE LANGUAGE OF HONOUR; THE USES OF HISTORY; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; 7 Meanings, Myths and Mystifications: The Social Construction of Life Stories in Russia; INTRODUCTION; METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS
- THE POLITICS OF FORGETFULNESSEDUCATION, WORK AND FAMILY VALUES; IGOR AND FAMILY TRADITION; RELIGION; CONCLUSION: BETWEEN CULTURES, A LIVING HISTORY; NOTES; REFERENCES; 8 'And Who Now Plans Its Future?': Land in South Africa after Apartheid; A STARTING POINT; APARTHEID, LAND AND POPULATION; WHITE AGRICULTURE AT THE END OF APARTHEID; THE BANTUSTANS; AGRARIAN REFORM: A POLITICAL VACUUM?; THE POLICY DEBATE; DIFFERENT QUESTIONS, A DIFFERENT POLITICS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; 9 Change, Cognition and Control: The Reconstruction of Nomadism in Iran; PREAMBLE; BACKGROUND: THE NOMADS OF IRAN
- THE RECONSTRUCTION OF NOMAD ECONOMY AND SOCIETY UNDER THE ISLAMIC REPUBLICWHO ARE
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- THE 'NOMADS'? DEFINITION AND REDEFINITION; TRIBES AND NOMADS; NOMADS' SELF-DEFINITIONS; REDEFINING 'SETTLEMENT'; CONCLUSION; NOTES; REFERENCES; 10 Creating Law: Trade, Production and Accelerating Change in Late Ottoman Izmir; INTRODUCTION; ISLAMIC LAW, SECULAR LAW AND TRADE; INTERNATIONAL TRADE SHAPES THE LOCAL CONTEXT; AN AGRICULTURAL REVOLUTION; LOCAL AND NATIONAL ELITES, AND LEGAL CHANGE; NOTES; REFERENCES; 11 The New Circle of Equity; A PENDULUM-SWING THEORY OF KEMALISM