Vertiefung Allgemeine Soziologie: Modernization Theory: The World Society between Western Nationalism and Radical Islamism

Dozent/in:

Christiane Heimann

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, Studium Generale, Modulstudium

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 8.12.2017, 14:00 - 16:00, FMA/00.08
Blockveranstaltung 15.12.2017-16.12.2017 Fr, Sa, Blockveranstaltung 19.1.2018-20.1.2018 Fr, Sa, 10:00 - 16:00, FMA/00.08
Einzeltermin am 26.1.2018, Einzeltermin am 2.2.2018, 14:00 - 16:00, FMA/00.08

Inhalt:

Currently, in many countries principles of modern society, like civil and human rights, as well as democracy, equality and freedom are cut back. These actions are legitimized by a common identity, which can be found in ethnic, religious or governmental communities. Is the idea of a modern world society based on universal values dead? Are different cultures struggling for global hegemony? Do new forms of coexistence develop based on negotiation? These and other topics will be discussed in the seminar from the perspectives of different approaches of Modernisation Theory.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Literature: Weber, Max (1947): The theory of social and economic organization. Durkheim, Emile (1893): The division of labor in society. Parsons, T. (1977): Comparative studies and evolutionary change: In: Parsons, T.: Social Systems and the Evolution of Action Theory, New York, Free Press, p. 279-320. Parsons, T. (1960): Pattern variables revisited a response to Robert Dubin. In: American Sociological Review, 25 (4), p. 467-483. Münch, R. (2001): The ethics of modernity: formation and transformation in Britain, France, Germany, and the United States, Rowman & Littlefield, p. 34-117. Alexander, Jeffrey (1994): Modern, Anti, Post, and Neo: How Social Theories Have Tried to Understand the New World of Our Time . Eisenstadt, Samuel (2000): Multiple modernities. Schelkle, Waltraud (2000): Paradigms of social change: modernization, development, transformation, evolution. Frankfurt, Campus-Verlag, p.7-95. Eisenstadt, Samuel (2003): Comparative civilizations and multiple modernities, Huntington, Samuel P. (2002): The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order. London, Simon & Schuster, Free Press.