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Book Comparative Analysis of Processes of Agricultural Development and Modernization  Lissak  M  The philiosophy and policy of the political centers  a comparative and analytical analysis  Weintraub  D  Major theoretical issues  Eisenstadt  S N  The implications of variability of modern and modernizing society to problems of agrarian development

Download or read book Comparative Analysis of Processes of Agricultural Development and Modernization Lissak M The philiosophy and policy of the political centers a comparative and analytical analysis Weintraub D Major theoretical issues Eisenstadt S N The implications of variability of modern and modernizing society to problems of agrarian development written by Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Change and Modernity

Download or read book Social Change and Modernity written by Hans Haferkamp and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land  Labor and the Origins of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict  1882 1914

Download or read book Land Labor and the Origins of the Israeli Palestinian Conflict 1882 1914 written by Gershon Shafir and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1996-08-19 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.

Book Little Common Ground

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  • Author : Charles S. Kamen
  • Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
  • Release : 2010-11-23
  • ISBN : 0822976722
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book Little Common Ground written by Charles S. Kamen and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arabs and Jews have disputed the ancient lands of Palestine since the late nineteenth century, when Jews began emigrating there, buying land, and establishing farms, settlements, and businesses. In this book, Kamen examines the structure of Arab Palestine between the two world wars. He contrasts British and Israeli analyses against real world social and economic conditions of rural Arab society.

Book Traditional Jewish Papercuts

Download or read book Traditional Jewish Papercuts written by Joseph Shadur and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2002 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive work on papercuts, a long-overlooked aspect of Jewish folk art.

Book The Interrupted System

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  • Author : Barukh Ḳimerling
  • Publisher : Transaction Publishers
  • Release : 1985-01-01
  • ISBN : 9781412837439
  • Pages : 246 pages

Download or read book The Interrupted System written by Barukh Ḳimerling and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to all accepted criteria, Israel has developed a refined universe of social science research, yet the sociology of war, in a society whose brief history is described by "rounds" of war, is utterly lacking. Baruch Kimmerling's monumental work is an effort to correct this glaring omission. He does so by calling upon the best in survey research along with a deep reexamination of the classical social science literature on conflict and consensus. Israeli society is characterized by a large army of reserves, citizen-soldiers mobilized into military service during an emergency. One such emergency was the 1973 war; another the 1982 war. Kimmerling's approach is to treat such conflicts as temporary but powerful interruptions in many social processes. These episodic events not only lead to changing conceptions of mobilization, but higher risks stemming from potential loss of life and injury, shortages, and conceptions of disaster. This is a work which takes seriously both institutional requirements and personal traumas, and is thus very much in the mainstream of social analyses. Kimmerling and his research assistant Irit Backer have come up with most unusual data to measure stress and strain, occupational background of these citizen-soldiers, relationships between normal work and military tasks, the impact of such conflicts on migration patterns--among other truly unusual ways of getting at the topic of an "interrupted" system. This is a book written with a controlled passion, and no mere data-mon-gering activity. The author understands the high costs which Israelis pay to be part of the "club." He sees interruption as an integral part of a chronic conflict situation. Curiously he sees the special features of the Israeli system, when viewed in tandem with external pressures and conflicts, as enabling Israel to strike a balance which enables it to persevere. This is "a "critical work, but spares the reader fatuous policy recommendations.

Book The Theory of Communicative Action

Download or read book The Theory of Communicative Action written by Jürgen Habermas and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-10-07 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a systematic reconstruction of the theoretical foundations and framework of critical social theory. It is Habermas' "magnum opus", and it is regarded as one of the most important works of modern social thought. In this second and final volume of the work, Habermas examines the relations between action concepts and systems theory and elaborates a framework for analyzing the developmental tendencies of modern societies. He discusses in detail the work of Marx, Durkheim, G.H. Mead and Talcott Parsons, among others. By distinguishing between social systems and what he calls the "life-world", Habermas is able to analyze the ways in which the development of social systems impinges upon the symbolic and subjective dimensions of social life, resulting in the kind of crises, conflicts and protest movements which are characteristic of advanced capitalist societies in the late-20th century.

Book Readings in Social Evolution and Development

Download or read book Readings in Social Evolution and Development written by S. N. Eisenstadt and published by Elsevier. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readings in Social Evolution and Development presents a collection of articles on a specialized aspect of sociology, or social psychology. The book starts by describing social change and development and the role of institutionalization, individual behavior, and role performance on such change and development. The text also discusses the basic problems of evolutionary perspective in sociology and studies of development and modernization. The theories of social change, the problem of evolution, and the major trends of change in the contemporary setting, such as changes in the industrial societies and alternative courses of political development in the new states are also encompassed. Sociologists and social psychologists and students taking sociology courses will find the book useful.

Book The Birth of Israel

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  • Author : Simha Flapan
  • Publisher : Pantheon
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780679720980
  • Pages : 277 pages

Download or read book The Birth of Israel written by Simha Flapan and published by Pantheon. This book was released on 1987 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on recently declassified material, from Ben-Gurion's war diaries to the minutes of secret meetings, the author reconstructs the real events surrounding the founding of Israel, exposing many of the historical beliefs as propaganda myths that have m

Book False Consciousness and Ideology in Marxist Theory

Download or read book False Consciousness and Ideology in Marxist Theory written by Ron Eyerman and published by Stockholm, Sweden : Almqvist & Wiksell International. This book was released on 1981 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism

Download or read book The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism written by Max Weber and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author's best-known and most controversial study relates the rise of a capitalist economy to the Puritan belief that hard work and good deeds were outward signs of faith and salvation.

Book Pictures of People

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  • Author : Pamela Allara
  • Publisher : UPNE
  • Release : 2000
  • ISBN : 9781584650362
  • Pages : 380 pages

Download or read book Pictures of People written by Pamela Allara and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2000 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant chronicle of the life and work of a prolific painter and bohemian eccentric.

Book Farewell to the Working Class

Download or read book Farewell to the Working Class written by André Gorz and published by Pluto Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: André Gorz argues that changes in the role of the work and labour process in the closing decades of the twentieth century have, once and for all, weakened the power of skilled industrial workers. Their place has been taken, says Gorz, by social movements such as the womenʹs movement and the green movement, and all those who refuse to accept the work ethic so fundamental to early capitalist societies. Provocative and heretical, Farewell to the Working Class is a classic study of labour and unemployment in the post-industrial world.

Book Global Culture  Consciousness and Connectivity

Download or read book Global Culture Consciousness and Connectivity written by Roland Robertson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The current discourse of globalization is overwhelmingly centred upon the interconnectedness, or connectivity, of the contemporary world; to the great neglect of the issues of global culture and global consciousness. With contemporary worldwide culture increasingly characterized by such themes as astronomy, cosmology, space travel and exploration, there is an increasing disjuncture between academic concern with connectivity, on the one hand, and culture and consciousness of the place of planet earth in the cosmos as a whole, on the other. This book addresses this deficiency from a variety of closely related perspectives, presenting studies of religion, science, sport, international organizations, global resistance movements and migrations and developments in East Asia. It brings together the latest theoretical empirical work from scholars in the US, UK, Australia, Japan, China and Israel on the significance of culture and global consciousness. As such, Global Culture: Consciousness and Connectivity will be of great interest to scholars across and beyond the social sciences working in the areas of global studies, cultural studies, social theory, the sociology of religion and related issues.

Book Approaches to the Study of Social Structure

Download or read book Approaches to the Study of Social Structure written by Peter M. Blau and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of contemporary approaches to structural inquiry includes contributions by such leading sociologists as Robert K. Merton, Talcott Parsons, and Gerhard E. Lenski. @Bibliog

Book Societies  Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives

Download or read book Societies Evolutionary and Comparative Perspectives written by Talcott Parsons and published by Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1966 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication deals with societies and their constituent parts.

Book European Experience

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dieter Senghaas
  • Publisher : Berg Publishers
  • Release : 1985
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 296 pages

Download or read book European Experience written by Dieter Senghaas and published by Berg Publishers. This book was released on 1985 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: