Download or read book Comparative Social Dynamics written by Erik Cohen and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-22 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These original articles relate to major themes in the comparative study of the dynamics of cultures, modernization, and social and political change. The authors, ranking scholars in their fields, provide fresh and important insights to the study of topics such as the interface of anthropological and sociological theory, the dynamics of Latin Americ

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Download or read book Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities written by Shmuel N. Eisenstadt and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-11-07 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays illuminate the processes of world history, modern civlizations and modes globalization from a comparative sociological point of view. The print edition is available as a set of two volumes (9789004129931).

Download or read book Seriously Funny written by Samuel Schmidt and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2014-03-06 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political jokes exist around the world and across many types of political systems. But what purposes do they serve? Do they have an impact on politics—or on politicians? Surprisingly, scholars have paid scant attention to these significant questions. And, until the publication of this book, no one had ever systematically studied political humor in Mexico. When the first edition of this work was published in Mexico, it caused a stir. Elected officials, it turned out, had grudgingly accepted that they and their politics could be the target of jokes uttered in public, and even on television, but they were incensed that a leading academic had collected political jokes into a book and analyzed their function in a country that had experienced nearly a century of one-party rule. Now available in English for the first time, Seriously Funny is a groundbreaking work. Its goal is to examine the ways in which political humor—including nicknames, anagrams, poems, and parodies of religious prayers, in addition to jokes—has developed and operated in one country over more than four centuries. Although political humor thrives in Mexico, it is often cleverly encoded so that it doesn’t appear to be critical of government policies or officials. But, writes Samuel Schmidt, that is precisely its purpose: to question the actions and assumptions of the party in power. Schmidt argues persuasively that political jokes are acts of minor rebellion: their objective is not to overthrow a government but to correct its mistakes.

Download or read book Vision and Method in Historical Sociology written by Theda Skocpol and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1984-09-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the careers and contributions of nine major scholars who have been influential in the development of historical sociology. Covers the work of Marc Bloch, Karl Polanyi, S. N. Eisenstadt, Reinhard Bendix, Perry Anderson, E. P. Thompson, Charles Tilly, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Barrington Moore, Jr.

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Download or read book The Deterioration of the Mexican Presidency written by Samuel Schmidt and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The election of Luis Echeverr�a to the Mexican presidency in 1970 marked not only the first rise of a bureaucrat to that position but also the intensification--if not the beginning--of a decline in presidential power. Now available for the first time in English, Samuel Schmidt's study sees in Echeverr�a's administration the roots of Mexico's ongoing political crisis.

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Download or read book A Companion to Latin American Anthropology written by Deborah Poole and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-12-21 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprised of 24 newly commissioned chapters, this defining reference volume on Latin America introduces English-language readers to the debates, traditions, and sensibilities that have shaped the study of this diverse region. Contributors include some of the most prominent figures in Latin American and Latin Americanist anthropology Offers previously unpublished work from Latin America scholars that has been translated into English explicitly for this volume Includes overviews of national anthropologies in Mexico, Cuba, Peru, Argentina, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia, and Brazil, and is also topically focused on new research Draws on original ethnographic and archival research Highlights national and regional debates Provides a vivid sense of how anthropologists often combine intellectual and political work to address the pressing social and cultural issues of Latin America

Download or read book The Power Struggles over the Post neoliberal Social Security System Reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador written by Ezequiel Luis Bistoletti and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 293 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book carries out a comparative analysis of the power struggles over the post-neoliberal social security reforms in Venezuela and Ecuador. The research breaks down why the social security system reform initiated by Hugo Chávez’ government in Venezuela has come down since its passing in 2002, whereas the social security system reform initiated by Rafael Correa’s government in Ecuador has come along in spite of the obstacles since 2007. All in all, the analysis determined that the struggles over the social security system reforms in both countries remarkably corresponded to each other with regard to their structural conditions, points of contention, and contending actors. In contrast, the analysis established substantial divergences regarding the ways in which the struggles over both reforms came about, due to the divergent development of the struggles for hegemony between government and opposition. These divergences finally brought about the indefinite stagnation of the reform in Venezuela and the advancement of subsequent partial reforms aimed at the universalization of social security in Ecuador.

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Download or read book Colonial Divide in Peruvian Narrative written by Misha Kokotovic and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-04-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores debates over Peru's modernisation and cultural identity in post-1940 literature, exploring how writers and others confronted challenges of language, style, and narrative form in their attempt to write across their nation's cultural divisions. This book examines the relationship between Peru's white elite and its indigenous majority.

Download or read book Local Reactions to Globalization Processes written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contents: Introduction: Facing globalisation from the local; From westernisation to the whirl of globality: conceptualising globalisation and its effects on local societies; Social consequences of the globalisation process in Argentina. Analysis of the specific situation in the Gran Buenos Aires; Global-Local Relations, Economic Reformation and Instabilities in Brazil: The Case of Porto Alegre; The impact of global economic integration on the countryside. Reflections on the Portuguese experience; The process of globalisation in an Andalusian town: Study of 'El Ejido'; A case of anti-globalisation social local movement: the olive oil sector reform; Tendencies towards urban disenchantment and coming back to localisms and ruralities in Spain; Trends of the new Role of the local: disjunctures and contradictions in the global network; The structure of opportunities to new localism and 'glocalisation': Meso-level Political and Cultural factors; A systemic approach to the present social structures: From autarchy to glocalisation; Index.