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- 7.1 @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
- 8.2 @1002:2018
- ~~DECKJS~~ # Western modernity as culture, ii # ## Western modernity as culture, ii ## Ryan Schram Mills 169, A26 ryan (dot) schram (... 24. doi:10.1525/nr.2015.19.1.5. ## The idea of "modernity" is cultural * There is no such thing as modernity, but the idea of modernity is powerful. * Many cultures
- 8.1 @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
- 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
- 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
- 6 @3621:2024
- ====== Week 6—Listening for modernity ====== ===== Week 6—Listening for modernity ===== **Main reading:** Inoue (2003) **Other reading:** Bauma... Richard, and Charles L. Briggs. 2003. //Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequali... ch. Inoue, Miyako. 2002. “Gender, Language, and Modernity: Toward an Effective History of Japanese Women’s
- the_practice_of_social_theory @6916:2018
- 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
- 7 @2700:2022
- s as specific instances of a general type. ===== Modernity is a metanarrative ===== “Like sands through the... ion * Poverty, dependency, inequality ===== If modernity is a meta-narrative, who are its stock characters... them. * What does the Western metanarrative of modernity sound like to an Auhelawa gardener? ===== Nostal... - One story is a happy story of progress toward modernity. - Another story is a sad, pessimistic story
- 6 @2700:2021
- s as specific instances of a general type. ===== Modernity is a metanarrative ===== “Like sands through the... ion * Poverty, dependency, inequality ===== If modernity is a meta-narrative, who are its stock characters... them. * What does the Western metanarrative of modernity sound like to an Auhelawa gardener? ===== Refere... ch. 2000. “Ethnography and the Meta‐Narratives of Modernity.” //Current Anthropology// 41 (2): 225–48. https:
- 2024 @3621:2024
- * | **March 25** | **[[:3621:2024:6|Listening for modernity]]** | Inoue (2003) | Bauman and Briggs (2003); In... Richard, and Charles L. Briggs. 2003. //Voices of Modernity: Language Ideologies and the Politics of Inequali... ss. Inoue, Miyako. 2002. “Gender, Language, and Modernity: Toward an Effective History of Japanese Women’s ... . ———. 2003. “The Listening Subject of Japanese Modernity and His Auditory Double: Citing, Sighting, and Si
- 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
- types-of-pubs @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
- the_pleasures_of_theory_-_a_rationale_for_the_unit_design @6916:2018
- by the systematising and commodifying aspects of modernity under different cultural conditions. In the fin... ally live in today. We have learned to call this ‘modernity’. For Durkheim, Weber and Marx, one of the main q... e past and the birth of a new era. The rupture of modernity meant different things to each of them, and meant... e must ask another question, “What if there is no modernity?” By the end of the class we will be able to look