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- City air makes you free @1002:2018
- by a **"from-to" story**, e.g. from tradition to modernity, from oral to literate, or from sustainable husba... is week we taking a second look at the concept of modernity. Today I want to talk about modernity as a distinct kind of change. On Wednesday, I want to argue that there is more than one kind of modernity. Specifically, * All societies change, but not a
- Modernity
- # Modernity # When many people discuss social change, they tend to use a particular language which sounds n... all societies are reaching toward the same thing, modernity. In fact, they aren't. All societies change, bu... up in the same place. There is no such thing as modernity in the sense that some societies are objectively ... of life. Even when anthropologists use the term modernity, they put it in "scare quotes". It's not their wo
- Religion and Economy
- orists, ultimately interested in the emergence of modernity, and in particular a economic system based on mar... f has been transformed into something wholly new, modernity. One of the signal ideas of Western social theory... basis in moral thinking. This signal concept of modernity, especially as a telos of world history, though, ... htning rod. Every aspect of Weber's conceptual of modernity—its rationality, its secularism, and its basis in
- In search of prosperity @1002:2018
- 5–24. doi:10.1525/nr.2015.19.1.5. ## Alternative modernity Brenner argues that Islamic movement does for I... donesia : : Protestantism : Europe So Indonesian modernity is an "alternative" to Western modernity, but for Brenner, there is a formal parallel between them. The soci... at are the distinctive cultural values of Western modernity not shared, for instance, by Indonesian modernity
- The practice of social theory @6916:2020
- ety developed, then, in the context of a faith in modernity. Indeed, the development of a theory of society was itself often taken as an expression of this modernity. Scientific social theory was a sign that society... ss is being reversed. For myself, I wonder if our modernity was real in the first place. While the end of the... ally live in today. We have learned to call this “modernity.” For Durkheim, Weber and Marx, one of the main q
- Anthony Giddens
- ncomplete. Giddens sees that social theories of modernity were also biased in another, related way. Theorists of modernity in the Western tradition tend to describe social ... individual's agency. In fact, Giddens argues that modernity was a transformation, not a breakdown, of society... g. On this point, Giddens also ties his theory of modernity to a concept of globalization. He argues that the
- Starting points for your research @2667
- elo, James S. 2011. Emerging Evangelicals: Faith, Modernity, and the Desire for Authenticity. New York: NYU P... topher John. 2003. The Renewal of the Priesthood: Modernity and Traditionalism in a South Indian Temple. Prin... 2005. A Peaceful Jihad: Negotiating Identity and Modernity in Muslim Java. London: Palgrave Macmillan. Makl... . 2006. Zen in Brazil: The Quest for Cosmopolitan Modernity. Topics in Contemporary Buddhism. Honolulu: Unive
- Types of scholarly writing @1002:2020
- Piot (1999), entitled //Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa//. Piot’s book is an example of an... “Gift Remitting and Alliance Building in Zambian Modernity: Old Answers to Modern Problems” and which appear... “Gift Remitting and Alliance Building in Zambian Modernity: Old Answers to Modern Problems.” //American Anth... Piot, Charles. 1999. //Remotely Global: Village Modernity in West Africa//. Chicago: University of Chicago
- Max Weber
- l and kinship-based societies as too simple. ## Modernity and rationalization ## Weber's negative view of ... op from a traditional orientation toward a more [[modernity|modern]] one. This process involves allowing peop... ry of society is also, in this sense, a theory of modernity. Increasingly, social scientists have questioned ... way. Societies do not progress from tradition to modernity, at least not a single path. In so-called modern
- The payback beat: Ethnographic citizenship and the public kinship of indigenous subjects in postcolonial Papua New Guinea @talks
- Arguably, ethnojournalists narrate an alternative modernity, but this alternative narrative of history and ch... on and fights take place in an alternative, Simbu modernity. * Readers are not only addressed as Simbu, but... quivalence and mutual obligation. * Alternative modernity and double-counsciousness are both steps in the s
- The moral economy @1002:2018
- re we eat pork..." ## There is no such thing as "modernity" * There is no such thing as [[:modernity|modernity]]. * All societies change all the time, but no two societies end up in the same place. * Socie
- Putting it all together @1002:2018
- tions cannot be understood in either-or terms. [[:modernity|Modernity-tradition]], rational-emotional, etc. distort the real situations in which people live. ## Anthr... opposites are actually co-present. * Tradition / modernity * Developed / undeveloped * Custom / rationality
- Weekly plan and assigned readings @2667
- ee an apparent increase in 'public piety' in late modernity, both in the US and the Islamic world? | ^ 24.05... te Break with the Past.’ Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse.” Journal of... . Robbins, Joel. 2001. “God Is Nothing but Talk: Modernity, Language, and Prayer in a Papua New Guinea Socie
- Pangloss
- ring when we encounter latter-day conceptions of "modernity." In 19th century thinking, modernity was a natural evolution of society away from primitive tradition. Volt... nybody who asserts that progress, development and modernity are natural. ## References ## Voltaire. 2006 [
- Is African Christianity just 'African culture'? @2667
- te Break with the Past.’ Memory and Post-Colonial Modernity in Ghanaian Pentecostalist Discourse.” Journal of... on. * African religion is a form of "alternative modernity" * Pentecostal Christianity allows people to part
