CiNii Books - The perspective of historical sociology : the individual as homo-sociologicus through society and history

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- Šubrt, Jiří

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The perspective of historical sociology : the individual as homo-sociologicus through society and history

by Jiří Šubrt

Emerald Publishing, 2017

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Kobe University General Library / Library for Intercultural Studies

361-2-S061201800394

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Faculty of Letters Library, University of Tokyo西史

3号館F:65364819398738

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 265-288) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the range of themes which make up the field of Historical Sociology. Jiri Subrt systematically discusses the main problems of societal development, long term process and changes in the key areas of social life. These include not only temporalized sociology, evolutionary theory, civilizational analysis, societal systems, structures and functions, but also modernization and revolution, risk, crisis, catastrophe and collapse, wars, conflicts and violence, nations, nationalism and collective memory. This study does not ignore the fundamental dichotomy underlying the discipline, which is between individualism and holism. At the heart of this book lies the human individual as related to social and historical development. The key question is who or what is responsible for the process of human history: society or the individual? The author concludes by offering an approach which may help in resolving this dilemma.

Table of Contents

Part 1: The Perspective of Historical Sociology The Path to Historical Sociology History and Sociology Theoretical Dilemmas Part 2: Societies in the Processes of Changes The Dimension of Time Social Change - Different Approaches to its Observation and Analysis Crisis as a Challenge Part 3: Ideas of the Sociological "Founding Fathers" Sociology as a Science of Social Statics and Dynamics The Evolution of the Social Organism Historical Materialism Explaining the Emergence of Capitalism Digression on the Early Rationalization of Time Sociology as a Science About Social Facts A Digression on Collective Memory Part 4: Systems, Structures, and Functions The Social System and Evolution Inequality, Stratification, Mobility Theories of Conflict Structuralism and Post-Structuralism Functional Differentiation and its Consequences World-System Part 5: Civilizational Analysis Civilizing Process Paradigms of Human Condition Civilizations of the Axial Age Part 6: The Modern World, its Formative Processes and Transformations Pathways to Modern Society The Formation of Modern Nations The Dark Side of Modernization Wars, Conflicts and Violence From the First Modernity to the Second Modernity Part 7: The Human Individual and History Individualization in the Perspective of Historical-Sociological Thinking Individualism and Holism Homo Sociologicus Human Individual and His Place in History

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