Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age Dr Doris Jaros

Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age Dr Doris JarosA pioneering approach to social theory that rectifies overreliance on Western historical experience of development and modernization. In this pioneering volume, leading international scholars argue for the development of a new approach to social theory that draws on regional studies for the conduct of comparative analysis in the global age. Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age moves beyond facile generalizations based on the historical

thereby promoting them to proper quantum fields

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each finding themselves trapped in the country and enemies to the state

theoretical approaches discussed

from the age of immigration at the turn of the twentieth century to the era of neighborhood upheaval in the "New Boston" of the 1980s

the temple built by Cleopatra for Antony

she grows accustomed to 13-hour days

Reveals how media technologies and human mobility shape one another and exposes the interplay between the social and technological affordances in contemporary migration

Self-Cultivation in Early China is an introduction to multiple aspects of the foundational practice of self-cultivation in early China (c

how Arctic exploration served as a metaphor for nation-building and empire in nineteenth-century Britain

Sōphrosunē is one of the four moral virtues—along with wisdom

Scharfstein develops each tradition historically as the chapters unfold