...This chapter analyses the Jewish spirit. It approaches the cultural history of a traditional society, as Jewish society was everywhere until the onset of modernity, by examining the history of the interaction of a society and its members with their collective history. Nationalist-inspired...

...Nearly seven million Yi people live in Southwest China, but most educated people outside China have never heard of them. This book, which brings this little-known part of the world to life, is a collection of work by both Yi and foreign scholars describing their history, traditional society...

...Recent decades has seen a shift from what may be termed a 'politics of emancipation' to a politics of life. In a post-traditional society, late-modern people, young and old, are individualized and forced to lead a life on the basis of a reflexive lifestyle. Key aims for older people include those...

... because it marks, as well as any single year can, the end of British Empire and the beginning of the era of independence. It became clear that the concept of a ‘traditional society’ was simply the antonym of an assumed modernity. The effect of post-modernist influences on Imperial history is well known...

... Enlightenment Christianity Erasmus France Italy Locke John Machiavelli Niccolo professional puritanism Reformers work ethic Max Weber modern work traditional society Protestantism modernity sociology of work Max Weber’s famous reconstruction of the emergence and content of the ‘Protestant work...

...This chapter explores the social structures that affect the development of human agency. Its main issue is the rise of the ideal of autonomy, as a developmental norm, that is a major consequence of the transformation of public policies. In addition, the fall of traditional society and the growth...

... dimensions). Not surprisingly, their social structures reflect this close engagement. In traditional society, norms for social interaction involved both human-human relations and, because the kamui are alive and responsive just as human beings are, human–kamui relations...

... sociology emerged just as he elaborated an explanation of the triumph of National Socialism in Germany. He argued that modernization in Germany had been so rapid that it had destroyed the bonds of traditional society, leaving nothing in their place. However, the effects were different for the elite...

... China poverty shame literature traditional society karma Communism postreform era This chapter focuses on the cultural representations of poverty and shame in a selection of Chinese literature. A content analysis of the selected works was carried out through which the following were analysed...