| Description |
vi, 280 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Foreword - Margaret S Archer -- Introduction - Martin Albrow -- Towards A Universal Social Science -- Resisting the Revival of Relativism - Margaret S Archer -- Sociology as the Defetishisation of Modernity - Agnes Heller -- Conceptual Frameworks in Comparative Inquiry - Divergent or Convergent? - Piotr Sztompka -- Internationalising Sociology -- Sociology's Great Leap Forward - Edward A Tiryakian -- The Challenge of Internationalisation -- The Application of Participatory-Action Research in Latin America - Orlando Fals Borda -- Creating Indigenous Sociologies -- Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African Oral Poetry - Akinsola A Akiwowo -- Asuwada Principle - M Akin Makinde -- An Analysis of Akiwowo's Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African Perspective -- Towards an African Sociological Tradition - O B Lawuyi and Olufemi Taiwo -- A Rejoinder to Akiwowo and Makinde -- One World Society -- Societal Development, or Development of the World-System? - Immanuel Wallerstein -- Rent-Seeking or Dependency as Explanations of Why Poor People Stay Poor - Erich Weede -- An Operational Analysis of the Phenomenon of the Other Underdevelopment in the Arab World and in the Third World - Mahmoud Dhaouadi -- Occidental Reason, Orientalism, Islamic Fundamentalism - Mona Abaza and Georg Stauth -- A Critique -- Rld Movements -- The Green Movement - Johan Galtung -- A Socio-Historical Exploraton -- The Peace Movement - Artur Meier -- Some Questions Concerning its Social Nature and Structure -- Social Movements and Social Change in Self-Creative Socety - Zsuzsa Hegedus -- New Civil Initiatives in the International Arena |
| Analysis |
Sociology Methodology |
| Notes |
"In association with the International Sociological Association/ISA." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographcal references |
| Subject |
Globalization.
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Knowledge, Sociology of.
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Social change -- Cross-cultural studies.
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Social change.
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Social movements.
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Sociology -- Methodology.
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Sociology.
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| Author |
Albrow, Martin.
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King, Elizabeth, 1949-
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International Sociological Association.
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| LC no. |
90061354 |
| ISBN |
0803983239 |
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0803983247 (paperback) |
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