Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age

Contents

Contents Foreword: Pangaea II: Global/Local Studies xi Preface xiii Introduction: The Challenge of Integrating Social Theory and Regional Studies 1 Saïd Amir Arjomand Part I Comparative Sociology, Civilizational Analysis, and Regional Studies 1 Three Generations of Comparative Sociologies 23 Saïd Amir Arjomand 2 History, Sociology, and the Reconfiguration of Civilizations 63 Björn Wittrock 3 Civilization in the Global Era: One, Many . . . or None? 91 Edward A. Tiryakian 4 Power: Nation-States, Civilizations, and Globalization— A Multiple Modernities Perspective 113 Willfried Spohn 5 Reconfiguring Area Studies for the Global Age 145 Wolf Schäfer viii Contents Part II Historicizing Axial Shifts and Patterns of Evolution and Modernization 6 Historicizing Axial Civilizations 179 Johann P. Arnason 7 Crystallization of Islam and Developmental Patterns in the Islamicate Civilization 203 Saïd Amir Arjomand 8 Evolutionary Grades within Complex Societies: The Case of Ethiopia 221 Donald N. Levine 9 From Civilizations to Modernity: Divisions and Connections of the World, and Their Legacy—A Historical Social Geology 267 Göran Therborn Part III World Regions, Colonial and Subaltern Modernities in the Global Periphery 10 World-Sociology Beyond the Fragments: Oblivion and Advance in the Comparative Analysis of Modernities 293 Peter Wagner 11 The Americas, Civilizational Analysis, and Its Current Competitors: Bringing (Revolutionary) Politics Back In! 313 Wolfgang Knöbl 12 Atlantic Capitalism, American Economic Cultures 339 Jeremy C. A. Smith 13 Second Slavery versus Second Serfdom: Local Labor Regimes of the Global Periphery 361 Manuela Boatcă 14 Subaltern Modernities: The Case of the Arab Iranian Community of Bushehr 389 Babak Rahimi ix Contents 15 The Construction of Regional Identities in East Asia 415 Thomas Kern, Lotta Mayer, and Sang-hui Nam 16 Gazing Backward or Looking Forward: Colonial Modernity and Making of a Sociology of Modern India 437 Sujata Patel Contributors 461 Index 467 ...