Globalization, knowledge, and society : readings from International sociology

1990. Sociology, Methodology., Knowledge, Sociology of., Aufsatzsammlung 24 cm. vi, 280 pages. Encuadernación en tapa blanda de editorial. Idioma Inglés. edited by Martin Albrow and Elizabeth King. [International sociology. ][International sociology. ]. In association with the International Sociological Association/ISA. . Includes bibliographical references. Online version:: Globalization, knowledge, and society. London ; Newbury Park : Sage Publications, 1990 Local: (OCoLC)655723397. Contents Machine derived contents note: Foreword -- Margaret S Archer -- Introduction -- Martin Albrow -- Towards A Universal Social Science -- Resisting the Revival of Relativism -- Margaret S Archer -- Sociology as the Defetishisation of Modernity -- Agnes Heller -- Conceptual Frameworks in Comparative Inquiry -- Divergent or Convergent? -- Piotr Sztompka -- Internationalising Sociology -- Sociology s Great Leap Forward -- Edward A Tiryakian -- The Challenge of Internationalisation -- The Application of Participatory-Action Research in Latin America -- Orlando Fals Borda -- Creating Indigenous Sociologies -- Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African Oral Poetry -- Akinsola A Akiwowo -- Asuwada Principle -- M Akin Makinde -- An Analysis of Akiwowo s Contributions to the Sociology of Knowledge from an African Perspective -- Towards an African Sociological Tradition -- O B Lawuyi and Olufemi Taiwo -- A Rejoinder to Akiwowo and Makinde -- One World Society -- Societal Development, or Development of the World-System? -- Immanuel Wallerstein -- Rent-Seeking or Dependency as Explanations of Why Poor People Stay Poor -- Erich Weede -- An Operational Analysis of the Phenomenon of the Other Underdevelopment in the Arab World and in the Third World -- Mahmoud Dhaouadi -- Occidental Reason, Orientalism, Islamic Fundamentalism -- Mona Abaza and Georg Stauth -- A Critique -- Rld Movements -- The Green Movement -- Johan Galtung -- A Socio-Historical Exploration -- The Peace Movement -- Artur Meier -- Some Questions Concerning its Social Nature and Structure -- Social Movements and Social Change in Self-Creative Socety -- Zsuzsa Hegedus -- New Civil Initiatives in the International Arena . ISBN: 0803983239; 9780803983236; 0803983247; 97808039832