ISBN:
9789004266179
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (699 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Fishman, Joshua Concise Encyclopedia of Comparative Sociology
DDC:
301.03
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- List of Tables and Figures -- Part One Theoretical and Methodological Issues in Comparing Societies -- Comparing Societies around the World -- Comparing Societies across Sizes and Scales -- Comparing Societies: Qualitative Methods -- Comparing Societies: Quantitative Methods -- Part Two Comparative Historical Sociology -- Ancient Civilizations -- Empires, Imperial States, and Colonial Societies -- Modern Societies -- The Diverse Uses of Digital Formations -- Part Three Comparing Institutions and Social Structures
Abstract:
Population Structures -- Social Inequality and Mobility -- State Structures -- Parties and Party Systems -- Economic Systems: Comparative Historical Method in Economic Sociology -- Multi-Ethnic Societies -- The Sociology of Religion -- Corporations and Commerce -- The Metropolis -- Voluntary Organizations and Civil Society -- Family Systems in Comparative Perspective -- Gender and Society -- Professions -- Social Welfare Systems -- The Sociology of Language: A Return Visit -- Comparative Sociology of Education -- Mass Media -- Mass Culture -- Comparative Military Organization
Abstract:
The Social Organization of Science and Technology -- Cross-National Public Opinion Research -- Part Four Comparing Social Processes -- Economic Development and Growth -- The Emergence of Nation-States -- The Development of Nationalism and Citizenship -- Modernization and Globalization -- Democratization -- Political Socialization and Values -- Voting Behavior and Public Opinion -- Communication in the Internet Age -- Demography and Migration -- Crime, Imprisonment, and Social Control -- Social Problems -- Social Deviance -- Social Movements and Collective Behavior -- Terrorism
Abstract:
Hazards and Disasters -- Internal Wars and Revolution -- International War -- Ecology and Environment -- Leisure and Consumption -- Small Groups, Networks, and Social Interaction -- Emotions and Social Life -- Trust -- Collective Memory -- Part Five Comparing Nation-States and World Regions -- Asian Sociology in an Era of Globalization (with Emphasis on Japan, China, and Korea) -- European Societies -- American Society -- Latin American Societies -- The Middle East and North Africa -- Sub-Saharan Africa in Contemporary Perspective -- Part Six Biographies of Exemplary Comparative Sociologists
Abstract:
Perry Anderson -- Giovanni Arrighi -- Daniel Bell -- Reinhard Bendix -- Albert J. Bergesen -- Rae Lesser Blumberg -- Fernand Braudel -- Christopher Chase-Dunn -- Daniel Chirot -- Randall Collins -- Mattei Dogan -- Emile Durkheim -- S.N. Eisenstadt -- Jack A. Goldstone -- Johan Goudsblom -- Andre Gunder Frank -- Thomas D. Hall -- Geert Hofstede -- Alex Inkeles -- Edgar Kiser -- Melvin L. Kohn -- Krishan Kumar -- Gerhard Lenski -- Seymour Martin Lipset -- Michael Mann -- Robert M. Marsh -- Karl Marx -- William H. McNeill -- Barrington Moore, Jr. -- Charles Ragin -- Dietrich Rueschemeyer
Abstract:
Stephen K. Sanderson
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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