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  • 1
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108613880
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 273 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Social change ; Populism / Social aspects ; Social values ; Wertwandel ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Modernisierungstheorie ; Verhalten ; Motivation ; Modernisierungstheorie ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturwandel ; Wertwandel ; Motivation ; Verhalten
    Abstract: Cultural Evolution argues that people's values and behavior are shaped by the degree to which survival is secure; it was precarious for most of history, which encouraged heavy emphasis on group solidarity, rejection of outsiders, and obedience to strong leaders. For under extreme scarcity, xenophobia is realistic: if there is just enough land to support one tribe and another tribe tries to claim it, survival may literally be a choice between Us and Them. Conversely, high levels of existential security encourage openness to change, diversity, and new ideas. The unprecedented prosperity and security of the postwar era brought cultural change, the environmentalist movement, and the spread of democracy. But in recent decades, diminishing job security and rising inequality have led to an authoritarian reaction. Evidence from more than 100 countries demonstrates that people's motivations and behavior reflect the extent to which they take survival for granted - and that modernization changes them in roughly predictable ways. This book explains the rise of environmentalist parties, gender equality, and same-sex marriage through a new, empirically-tested version of modernization theory
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : overview of this book -- Evolutionary modernization and cultural change -- The rise of postmaterialist values in the West and the world -- Global cultural patterns -- The end of secularization? -- Cultural change, slow and fast : the distinctive trajectory of norms governing gender equality and sexual orientation -- The feminization of society and declining willingness to fight for one's country : the individual-level component of the long peace -- Development and democracy -- The changing roots of happiness -- The silent revolution in reverse : the rise of Trump and the authoritarian populist parties -- The coming of artificial intelligence society
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  • 2
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139236782
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (v, 492 pages)
    DDC: 306.09
    Abstract: Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of post-war global order: capitalism, the nation-state system and the sole remaining empire of the world, the United States. In the course of this period, capitalism, nation-states and empires interacted with one another and were transformed. Mann's key argument is that globalization is not just a single process, because there are globalizations of all four sources of social power, each of which has a different rhythm of development. Topics include the rise and beginnings of decline of the American Empire, the fall or transformation of communism (respectively, the Soviet Union and China), the shift from neo-Keynesianism to neoliberalism, and the three great crises emerging in this period – nuclear weapons, the great recession and climate change.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139236782
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (v, 492 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Power (Social sciences) ; Social history
    Abstract: Distinguishing four sources of power – ideological, economic, military and political – this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This fourth volume covers the period from 1945 to the present, focusing on the three major pillars of post-war global order: capitalism, the nation-state system and the sole remaining empire of the world, the United States. In the course of this period, capitalism, nation-states and empires interacted with one another and were transformed. Mann's key argument is that globalization is not just a single process, because there are globalizations of all four sources of social power, each of which has a different rhythm of development. Topics include the rise and beginnings of decline of the American Empire, the fall or transformation of communism (respectively, the Soviet Union and China), the shift from neo-Keynesianism to neoliberalism, and the three great crises emerging in this period – nuclear weapons, the great recession and climate change
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139381314
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 823 pages)
    Edition: New edition.
    DDC: 306.09
    Abstract: Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies - ideological, economic, military and political - The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. This second volume deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain, Hapsburg Austria, Prussia/Germany and the United States. Based on considerable empirical research, it provides original theories of the rise of nations and nationalism, of class conflict, of the modern state and of modern militarism. While not afraid to generalize, it also stresses social and historical complexity. Michael Mann sees human society as 'a patterned mess' and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this, his final chapter giving an original explanation of the causes of the First World War. First published in 1993, this new edition of Volume 2 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139381307
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvii, 549 pages)
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    DDC: 306.09
    Abstract: Distinguishing four sources of power in human societies – ideological, economic, military and political – The Sources of Social Power traces their interrelations throughout human history. In this first volume, Michael Mann examines interrelations between these elements from neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilizations, the classical Mediterranean age and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. It offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification; of city-states, militaristic empires and the persistent interaction between them; of the world salvation religions; and of the particular dynamism of medieval and early modern Europe. It ends by generalizing about the nature of overall social development, the varying forms of social cohesion and the role of classes and class struggle in history. First published in 1986, this new edition of Volume 1 includes a new preface by the author examining the impact and legacy of the work.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139236751
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 510 pages)
    DDC: 303.3
    Abstract: Distinguishing four sources of power - ideological, economic, military and political - this series traces their interrelations throughout human history. This third volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power begins with nineteenth-century global empires and continues with a global history of the twentieth century up to 1945. Mann focuses on the interrelated development of capitalism, nation-states and empires. Volume 3 discusses the 'Great Divergence' between the fortunes of the West and the rest of the world; the self-destruction of European and Japanese power in two world wars; the Great Depression; the rise of American and Soviet power; the rivalry between capitalism, socialism and fascism; and the triumph of a reformed and democratic capitalism.
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    ISBN: 9781107031173 , 9781107635975
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 549 Seiten
    Edition: New edition
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107028678 , 9781107308985 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 500 p.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Online-Ressource ISBN 9781107308985
    Edition: [Online-Ausg.]
    DDC: 303.309045
    Keywords: Electronic books
    Abstract: This fourth volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power covers the period from 1945 to the present.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107011281 , 9781139118019 (Sekundärausgabe)
    Language: English
    Pages: 394 p.
    Edition: 2nd ed.
    Edition: Online-Ausg. Ann Arbor, Michigan Proquest Online-Ressource ISBN 9781139118019
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    Series Statement: Cambridge Studies in Social Theory, Religion and Politics
    DDC: 306.6
    Abstract: Demonstrates that although advanced societies have been moving toward secular orientation, the world has more people with traditional religious views.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511894862
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 375 pages)
    Edition: Second edition.
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
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    Abstract: This book develops a theory of existential security. It demonstrates that the publics of virtually all advanced industrial societies have been moving toward more secular orientations during the past half century, but also that the world as a whole now has more people with traditional religious views than ever before. This second edition expands the theory and provides new and updated evidence from a broad perspective and in a wide range of countries. This confirms that religiosity persists most strongly among vulnerable populations, especially in poorer nations and in failed states. Conversely, a systematic erosion of religious practices, values and beliefs has occurred among the more prosperous strata in rich nations.
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    ISBN: 9780511550362
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource
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    DDC: 305.3
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    Keywords: Frau ; Sex role / Cross-cultural studies ; Women's rights / Cross-cultural studies ; Social change / Cross-cultural studies ; Social values / Cross-cultural studies ; Women / Political activity / Cross-cultural studies ; Politik ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Geschlechterrolle ; Frauenemanzipation ; Frauenbewegung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturvergleich ; Frau ; Geschlechterrolle ; Frauenbewegung ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturvergleich ; Frau ; Sozialer Wandel ; Kulturvergleich ; Frauenemanzipation ; Sozialer Wandel ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Frau ; Politik
    Abstract: The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. However, the force of this 'rising tide' has varied among rich and poor societies around the globe, as well as among younger and older generations. Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. The core argument suggests that women and men's lives have been altered in a two-stage modernization process consisting of (i) the shift from agrarian to industrialized societies and (ii) the move from industrial towards post industrial societies. This book is the first to systematically compare attitudes towards gender equality worldwide, comparing almost 70 nations that run the gamut from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. Rising Tide is essential reading for those interested in understanding issues of comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, political development, and political sociology
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest
    ISBN: 9780511336669
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (345 pages)
    DDC: 303.4
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    Keywords: Modernisierung ; Kulturwandel ; Sozialer Wandel ; Wertwandel ; Wert ; Demokratie
    Abstract: This book presents a revised version of modernisation theory.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511817274
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 580 pages)
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    Abstract: A new theory of ethnic cleansing based on the most terrible cases (colonial genocides, Armenia, the Nazi Holocaust, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, Rwanda) and cases of lesser violence (early modern Europe, contemporary India, and Indonesia). Murderous cleansing is modern, 'the dark side of democracy'. It results where the demos (democracy) is confused with the ethnos (the ethnic group). Danger arises where two rival ethno-national movements each claims 'its own' state over the same territory. Conflict escalates where either the weaker side fights because of aid from outside, or the stronger side believes it can deploy sudden, overwhelming force. Escalation is not simply the work of 'evil elites' or 'primitive peoples'. It results from complex interactions between leaders, militants, and 'core constituencies' of ethno-nationalism. Understanding this complex process helps us devise policies to avoid ethnic cleansing in the future.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511338406 , 0511790880 , 9780511338403 , 9780511790881 , 9786611112981
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 333 pages) , illustrations
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Inglehart, Ronald Modernization, cultural change, and democracy
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    Keywords: Social change ; Social values ; Democratization ; Democracy ; SOCIAL SCIENCE ; General ; Changement social ; Valeurs sociales ; Démocratisation ; Démocratie ; Democracy ; Democratization ; Social change ; Social values
    Abstract: "This book demonstrates that people's basic values and beliefs are changing, in ways that affect their political, sexual, economic, and religious behavior. These changes are roughly predictable: to a large extent, they can be explained by the revised version of modernization theory presented here. Drawing on a massive body of evidence from societies containing 85 percent of the world's population, the authors demonstrate that modernization is a process of human development, in which economic development gives rise to cultural changes that make individual autonomy, gender equality, and democracy increasingly likely. The authors present a model of social change that predicts how value systems are likely to evolve in coming decades. They demonstrate that mass values play a crucial role in the emergence and flourishing of democratic institutions."--Jacket
    Abstract: A revised theory of modernization -- Value change and the persistence of cultural traditions -- Exploring the unknown : predicting mass responses -- Intergenerational value change -- Value changes over time -- Individualism, self-expression, and civic virtues -- The causal link between democratic values and democratic institutions : theoretical discussion -- The causal link between democratic values and democratic institutions : empirical analyses -- Social forces, collective action, and international events -- Individual level values and system level democracy : the problem of cross-level analysis -- Elements of a pro-democratic civic culture -- Gender equality, emancipative values, and democracy -- The implications of human development -- An emancipative theory of democracy.
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    Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 052183984X , 0521548721
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (xv, 329 p) , ill., maps , 24 cm
    Edition: Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion, and politics
    Parallel Title: Print version Sacred and Secular : Religion and Politics Worldwide
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    Keywords: Religion and politics
    Abstract: Sacred and Secular examines the validity of the secularization thesis, developing a theory of secularization and existential security. It is essential reading for anyone interested in comparative religion, sociology, public opinion, political behavior, political development, social psychology, international relations, and cultural change
    Description / Table of Contents: Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Tables; Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; SACRED AND SECULAR; PART I Understanding Secularization; PART II Case Studies of Religion and Politics; PART III The Consequences of Secularization; CONCLUSIONS; Appendix A; Appendix B; Appendix C; Notes; Bibliography; Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511550362
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xiv, 226 pages)
    DDC: 305.3
    Abstract: The twentieth century gave rise to profound changes in traditional sex roles. However, the force of this 'rising tide' has varied among rich and poor societies around the globe, as well as among younger and older generations. Rising Tide sets out to understand how modernization has changed cultural attitudes towards gender equality and to analyze the political consequences of this process. The core argument suggests that women and men's lives have been altered in a two-stage modernization process consisting of (i) the shift from agrarian to industrialized societies and (ii) the move from industrial towards post industrial societies. This book is the first to systematically compare attitudes towards gender equality worldwide, comparing almost 70 nations that run the gamut from rich to poor, agrarian to postindustrial. Rising Tide is essential reading for those interested in understanding issues of comparative politics, public opinion, political behavior, political development, and political sociology.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570902
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (823 pages)
    DDC: 303.3
    Abstract: This second volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain, Hapsburg Austria, Prussia/Germany and the United States. Based on considerable empirical research it provides original theories of the rise of nations and nationalism, of class conflict, of the modern state and of modern militarism. While not afraid to generalise, it also stresses social and historical complexity. The author sees human society as 'a patterned mess' and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this. This theory culminates in the final chapter, an original explanation of the causes of the First World War.
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    ISBN: 9780511570902
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    Pages: 1 online resource (823 pages)
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    Keywords: Sozialgeschichte ; Social history ; Power (Social sciences)
    Abstract: This second volume of Michael Mann's analytical history of social power deals with power relations between the Industrial Revolution and the First World War, focusing on France, Great Britain, Hapsburg Austria, Prussia/Germany and the United States. Based on considerable empirical research it provides original theories of the rise of nations and nationalism, of class conflict, of the modern state and of modern militarism. While not afraid to generalise, it also stresses social and historical complexity. The author sees human society as 'a patterned mess' and attempts to provide a sociological theory appropriate to this. This theory culminates in the final chapter, an original explanation of the causes of the First World War
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570896
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (ix, 549 pages)
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    Abstract: This is the first part of a three-volume work on the nature of power in human societies. In it, Michael Mann identifies the four principal 'sources' of power as being control over economic, ideological, military, and political resources. He examines the interrelations between these in a narrative history of power from Neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilisations, the classical Mediterranean age, and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. Rejecting the conventional monolithic concept of a 'society', Dr. Mann's model is instead one of a series of overlapping, intersecting power networks. He makes this model operational by focusing on the logistics of power - how the flow of information, manpower, and goods is controlled over social and geographical space-thereby clarifying many of the 'great debates' in sociological theory. The present volume offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification
    Description / Table of Contents: v. 1. A history of power from the beginning to A.D. 1760 -- v. 2. The rise of classes and nation-states, 1760-1914
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press | Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511570896
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    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 549 pages)
    DDC: 303.3
    Abstract: This is the first part of a three-volume work on the nature of power in human societies. In it, Michael Mann identifies the four principal 'sources' of power as being control over economic, ideological, military, and political resources. He examines the interrelations between these in a narrative history of power from Neolithic times, through ancient Near Eastern civilisations, the classical Mediterranean age, and medieval Europe, up to just before the Industrial Revolution in England. Rejecting the conventional monolithic concept of a 'society', Dr. Mann's model is instead one of a series of overlapping, intersecting power networks. He makes this model operational by focusing on the logistics of power - how the flow of information, manpower, and goods is controlled over social and geographical space-thereby clarifying many of the 'great debates' in sociological theory. The present volume offers explanations of the emergence of the state and social stratification.
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