Ethnos and Society

Author: Alexander Dugin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912079063
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250

Book Description
In this monograph, Dugin provides an overview of the primary foreign and Russian sources and schools that influenced the establishment of ethnosociology as an independent and original scientific discipline. Dugin offers a profoundly philosophical approach to the categories of the "ethnos," "narod," "nation" and "society," providing clear definitions of these concepts, and expounding a broader ethnosociological taxonomy. For the first time in the field, this work brings a consistent approach to a broad spectrum of knowledge, as well as elucidating various methodologies of ethnosociological analysis, bringing everything together into a single, easily applicable system. This volume is an invaluable manual for those specializing in sociology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, ethnology, international relations, state, and law, as well as being of interest to those who follow the current developments in the humanities.

Language and Society

Author: William C. McCormack
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 3110806487
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 788

Book Description

After Ethnos

Author: Tobias Rees
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 147800228X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 179

Book Description
For most of the twentieth century, anthropologists understood themselves as ethnographers. The art of anthropology was the fieldwork-based description of faraway others—of how social structures secretly organized the living-together of a given society, of how a people had endowed the world surrounding them with cultural meaning. While the poetics and politics of anthropology have changed dramatically over the course of a century, the basic equation of anthropology with ethnography—as well as the definition of the human as a social and cultural being—has remained so evident that the possibility of questioning it occurred to hardly anyone. In After Ethnos Tobias Rees endeavors to decouple anthropology from ethnography—and the human from society and culture—and explores the manifold possibilities of practicing a question-based rather than an answer-based anthropology that emanates from this decoupling. What emerges from Rees's provocations is a new understanding of anthropology as a philosophically and poetically inclined, fieldwork-based investigation of what it could mean to be human when the established concepts of the human on which anthropology has been built increasingly fail us.

Ethnosociology

Author: Alexander Dugin
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781912975006
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 310

Book Description
Ethnosociology: The Foundations is a systematic presentation of the main principles and analytic strategies of the discipline of ethnosociology, written by Alexander Dugin, one of the major Russian philosophers and political analysts of the present day. Through study of the main sources and schools that influenced the establishment of ethnosociology as an independent and original scientific discipline, Alexander Dugin offers a profound philosophical approach to the categories of the "ethnos," "narod," "nation," and "society" and elaborates a general ethnosociological taxonomy. Dugin's work is distinguished by its strict consistency, a broad spectrum of knowledge, and various methodologies of ethnosociological analysis, brought together into a single, easily applicable system. While this book can serve as a manual for specialists in the field of sociology, philosophy, political science, cultural studies, ethnology, international relations, state and law, it will also be of pertinent interest to anyone who follows the latest groundbreaking developments in the humanities, or who seeks to understand the structure of human societies.

Philosophers on Race

Author: Julie K. Ward
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470752041
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 336

Book Description
Philosophers on Race adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining the historical roots of the concept in the works of major Western philosophers.

Burial and Ancient Society

Author: Ian Morris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521387385
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

Book Description
This study of the changing relationships between burial rituals and social structure in Early Iron Age Greece will be required reading for all archaeologists working with burial evidence, in whatever period. This book differs from many topical studies of state formation in that unique and particular developments are given as much weight as those factors which are common to all early states. The ancient literary evidence and the relevant historical and anthropological comparisons are extensively drawn on in an attempt to explain the transition to the city-state, a development which was to have decisive effects for the subsequent development of European society.

Authority

Author: Malcolm Ramsey
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1469161079
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 94

Book Description
I admire and applaud the brave crusaders who try to influence, through protests people with authority. Environmental groups such as the David Suzuki Foundation, Green Peace, The Nature Conservancy and social justice groups namely the Occupy Movement bravely struggle to influence authority. These are the true heroes in our society. Numerous excellent documentaries, like Leonardo Dicaprio’s ‘The Eleventh Hour’ and Al Gore’s ‘An Inconvenient Truth,’ point out what will happen to our biosphere if we don’t change course. However, when push comes to shove it’s all very well to be informed about a problem but in today’s world being informed is a useless exercise because individuals have no authority to do anything about it. My thesis offers a possible solution by empowering individuals giving them full citizenship, responsibility, and ownership in these problems. This authority would empower citizens to exercise their authority by demanding truth and expelling ineffectiveness. Perhaps you’ve, watched such documentaries, read books or attended lectures about our ancestors to gain a tiny understanding of what it would be like to live in a world where there is no law against manslaughter, nonconsensual sex or genocide. It’s not hard to believe that the most dangerous, cunning and cruel creature on the planet is not the shark but mankind. Some say we are nature’s knives, put here to reduce the number of species on the planet. We are not only the most dangerous predator on the planet, but also the only predator of our own species. Our very success has come from this complicated survival strategy of killing our fellow man (murder) and having non-consensual sex (rape) to select the most intelligent beauties to reproduce. It’s quite natural for the Serbian soldiers to kill the men of a village then lock up the women to be used as sex slaves. Such practices were common for great warriors such as the Ottomans, Genghis Khan and the standard among ancient as well as modern aggressors. The best incentive to fight hard was the sex at the end of the battle. Our political system is our only defense against our potential malevolence. Politics gives us rules protecting ourselves from ourselves. At the beginning of the third millennia the beautiful intelligent people who occupy the biosphere of this planet, the end product of thousands of generations of manslaughter and nonconsensual sex, are responsible for maintaining this law and order. We know if we work together we can save the biosphere and in so doing save thousands of future generations of our own species. The solution to a stable world is inevitable. Are you ready?

The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society

Author: Jason L. Powell
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441900667
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 373

Book Description
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence social policy at a national and local level. Among the many ramifications of these changes is that globalizing influences may hinder the ability of individual nation-states to effect policies that are beneficial to them on a local level. With contributions from thirteen countries worldwide, this collected work represents the first major comparative analysis on the effect of globalization on the international welfare state. The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society is divided into two major sections: the first draws from a number of leading social welfare researchers from diverse countries who point to the nation-state as case studies; highlighting how it goes about establishing and revising social welfare provisions. The second portion of the volume then moves to a more global perspective in its analysis and questioning of the impact of globalization on citizenship, ageing and marketization. The Welfare State in Post-Industrial Society seeks to encourage debate about the implications of the most pressing social welfare issues in nation-states, and integrate analyses of policy and practice in particular countries struggling to provide social welfare support for their needy populations.

The Gumilev Mystique

Author: Mark Bassin
Publisher: Cornell University Press
ISBN: 1501703390
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 401

Book Description
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union, the legacy of the historian, ethnographer, and geographer Lev Nikolaevich Gumilev (1912–1992) has attracted extraordinary interest in Russia and beyond. The son of two of modern Russia’s greatest poets, Nikolai Gumilev and Anna Akhmatova, Gumilev spent thirteen years in Stalinist prison camps, and after his release in 1956 remained officially outcast and professionally shunned. Out of the tumult of perestroika, however, his writings began to attract attention and he himself became a well-known and popular figure. Despite his highly controversial (and often contradictory) views about the meaning of Russian history, the nature of ethnicity, and the dynamics of interethnic relations, Gumilev now enjoys a degree of admiration and adulation matched by few if any other public intellectual figures in the former Soviet Union. He is freely compared to Albert Einstein and Karl Marx, and his works today sell millions of copies and have been adopted as official textbooks in Russian high schools. Universities and mountain peaks alike are named in his honor, and a statue of him adorns a prominent thoroughfare in a major city. Leading politicians, President Vladimir Putin very much included, are unstinting in their deep appreciation for his legacy, and one of the most important foreign-policy projects of the Russian government today is clearly inspired by his particular vision of how the Eurasian peoples formed a historical community. In The Gumilev Mystique, Mark Bassin presents an analysis of this remarkable phenomenon. He investigates the complex structure of Gumilev’s theories, revealing how they reflected and helped shape a variety of academic as well as political and social discourses in the USSR, and he traces how his authority has grown yet greater across the former Soviet Union. The themes he highlights while untangling Gumilev’s complicated web of influence are critical to understanding the political, intellectual, and ethno-national dynamics of Russian society from the age of Stalin to the present day.

Quality of Life

Author: David Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134349335
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 338

Book Description
Quality of life is one of the most important issues facing the world today and is central to the development of social policy. This innovative book discusses this crucial topic, assessing the criteria for judging attempts to raise quality of life, including the satisfaction of basic and social needs, autonomy to enjoy life and social connectivity. It considers key topics such as: individual well-being and health-related quality of life human needs - living fulfilling and flourishing lives poverty and social exclusion social solidarity, altruism and trust within communities. Quality of Life is the first systematic presentation of this subject from both individual and collective perspectives. It provides a powerful overview of a concept which is becoming increasingly prominent in the social sciences and is essential reading for students of social policy, sociology and health studies.