Society, History, and the Global Human Condition

Zaheer Baber; Joseph M. Bryant

doi:10.5771/9780739140383

Summary

This Festschrift for Irving M. Zeitlin honors a scholar whose work has influenced and continues to influence sociology, particularly classical sociological theory, sociology of religion, and historical sociology. Irving M. Zeitlin's scholarship and mentoring has also influenced and inspired a new generation of sociologists. The essays presented here address a wide range of topics that include classical sociological theory, globalization, bureaucracy, genocide, resistance, ethnic diversity, the intifada, anti-Semitism, democracy, geopolitical theory, war literature, science, and national culture. The contributions span a wide range of geographical areas that include Korea, China, India, Poland, Spain, Germany, the ex-Soviet Union, Canada, and the United States. These essays by eminent scholars located in many parts of the world affirm the incredibly broad range of expertise and learning that Irving M. Zeitlin's work has engaged with. The contributions to this volume also serve to highlight the contemporary relevance of the classical sociological tradition in making sense of the global human condition.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2010
ISBN-Print: 978-0-7391-4036-9
ISBN-Online: 978-0-7391-4038-3
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 334
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Acknowledgments No access
3. A Congratulatory Salutation to Our Honoree: from Anthony Giddens, member of the House of Lords and former director of the London School of Economics No access
4. Introduction: Passing the Torch, Kindling the FiresIrving M. Zeitlin on the Classical Tradition and Its Contemporary Possibilities No access
Chapter 1. Mentoring Matters: Reflections on Pedagogy and the Dilemmas of Disciplinarity No access Pages 1 - 18
Chapter 2. The Code of the Streets No access Pages 19 - 32
Chapter 3. The Last Stands of Jews in the Small Town Ghettos of German-Occupied Poland, 1941–1943 No access Pages 33 - 70
Chapter 4. State Breakdown Theory and Geopolitical Theory: Lessons from the Fall of the Soviet Bloc No access Pages 71 - 86
Chapter 5. Breaking the Iron Triangle of Sociological Causation: Structural, Cultural, and Agentic Influences on Fatah and Hamas during the Second Intifada* No access Pages 87 - 104
Chapter 6. Deference versus Democracy in Traditional and Modern Bureaucracy: Refinements of Weber’s Ideal Type Model No access Pages 105 - 128
Chapter 7. Democracy: Twenty-First-Century Horizons No access Pages 129 - 152
Chapter 8. Globalization, Migration, and Globalizing Cities: Implications for Democratic Urban Governance* No access Pages 153 - 172
Chapter 9. Defining National Culture: The Case of Contemporary China No access Pages 173 - 190
Chapter 10. Assimilation and Anti-Semitism: Comparing Fifteenth-Century Catholic Spain and Second Reich Germany No access Pages 191 - 216
Chapter 11. Christianity in Korea and Japan: A Historical-Sociological Study of Differential Cultural Reception and Social Impact from the 1880s to the 1940s1 No access Pages 217 - 240
Chapter 12. Mannheim, Mills, and Merton: The Sociology of Knowledge and Its Ambivalent Reception in America No access Pages 241 - 260
Chapter 13. Borders and Hybridity in Contemporary Literature and Social Theory No access Pages 261 - 274
Chapter 14. Combat Medicine and War Literature No access Pages 275 - 294
Chapter 15. Planting Empires, Producing Science: Botanical Gardens, Plants, and the Roots of Globalization No access Pages 295 - 322
Appendix A. Complete List of Publications by Irving M. Zeitlin No access Pages 323 - 324
Appendix B. Complete List of PhD Dissertations Supervised by Irving M. Zeitlin at the University of Toronto No access Pages 325 - 326
About the Contributors No access Pages 327 - 334