Secularization and States of Modernity

1984 ◽  
Vol 36 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-382 ◽  
Author(s):  
Terrance G. Carroll
Keyword(s):  
Detailed Analysis ◽  
Third World ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Modern State ◽  
The Third ◽  
Political Modernity ◽  
General Proposition ◽  
Significant Obstacle ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

Extensive secularization is frequently held to be a necessary condition for political modernity. The author argues that the relationship between religion and the modern state is considerably more complex than this general proposition suggests. It is necessary to specify particular ideological models of the modern state, since these differ significantly from one another; and it is necessary to specify particular religions in their contemporary manifestations, since these also differ in important ways. A detailed analysis of this type suggests that there is no general incompatibility between the main religions of the third world and widely shared, nonideological features of political modernity. Specific religions are shown to be incompatible with some specific forms of the modern state, while presenting no significant obstacle to other models of political modernity.

Crime, Justice, And Underdevelopment: The Palestinians Under Israeli Control

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elia Zureik
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Third World ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Crime Rates ◽  
Value Systems ◽  
Community Based ◽  
The Third ◽  
Norm Violation ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

Orthodox theories of crime in the Third World and in regions of uneven economic development offer a unilinear explanation of the relationship between economic development and increased crime rates. Simply stated, this Durkheimian position views the transition from traditional to modern society as being associated with the weakening of mechanical forms of solidarity and the emergence of secular and impersonal role structures based on a complex division of labor. Universalistic and achievement criteria replace ascriptive and particularistic values, and deviance-derived social control models based on formalized coercive sanctions substitute for traditional and community-based forms of control. Anomic behavior, frustration of expectations, and norm violation are considered an expected, if transitory, outcome of social change, and are explained on the basis of a clash between modern and traditional value systems.

American Democracy and the Third World: Convergence and Contradictions

1979 ◽  
Vol 41 (2) ◽  
pp. 256-272
Author(s):  
Kenneth W. Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Abraham Lincoln ◽  
The Other ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
The Third ◽  
Great Leader ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

I propose to examine the relationship of American democracy to the Third World along two planes of reality, one briefly sketched in outline and miniature, the other drawn with greater elaboration and substance. The brief sketch sums up all that follows; it draws on America's great leader, Abraham Lincoln, who prophetically defined the issues that faced both the young American republic and today's fledgling nations by asking the question:Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?

The Compassion of Shared Spectatorship

2019 ◽  
pp. 87-136
Author(s):  
Celine Parreñas Shimizu
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
The Other ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Spectator ◽  
The Third World

Through his filming of bodies in poverty and squalor, Brillante Mendoza prevents the traditional consumption of the third world as enjoyable, entertaining, and educational, and instead enables a multisensorial immersion in a bewildering pandemonium that remains tense and uncomfortable. In this, the filmmaker questions the basis of identification: they suffer like me is replaced by they suffer unlike me. Yet the films demand a feeling, what I call shared spectatorship, for it is a mode of identification predicated not on pleasure but on difference as the necessary condition for us to mark our own positions outside that suffering. We are not inside the shoes or the soul of the other, rather the movie shows us our distance through representations of proximity that emphasize difference. His films butcher the spectator because people are rampantly butchered in the Philippines—as a fact and not a fantasy that his films concoct.

scholarly journals Coping with the World Depression: The Nationalist Government's Relations with Chinese Industry and Commerce, 1932–1936

1991 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 649-674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Wright
Keyword(s):  
Third World ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Capitalist Class ◽  
The Third ◽  
State And Society ◽  
The World ◽  
Chinese Industry ◽  
Industry And Commerce ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

The relationship between state and society has recently attracted increasing interest (Skocpol 1985). In many cases, particularly in Asia and the ‘third world’, the question has been posed in terms of how far the state's economic policies reflect the (real or perceived) interests of the capitalist class, or whether the state and its personnel act as an autonomous force above society pursuing policies irrelevant or even inimical to capitalist interests.

TWAIL: Past and Future

2008 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Antony Anghie
Keyword(s):  
International Law ◽  
Third World ◽  
Special Importance ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

AbstractWhile TWAIL could be viewed as a methodology, it is a methodology that is still being developed. The work of current TWAIL scholars on particular areas of international law is of special importance to TWAIL as these studies will hopefully reveal particular ways in which the relationship between international law and the Third World plays out, and will thereby add to the analytical resources available to TWAIL scholars.

The Issue of Drug Traffic in Colombian-US Relations: Cooperation as an Imperative

1995 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 101-112
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Pardo García-Peña
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
Global Politics ◽  
Global Issues ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Drug Traffic ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Point Of Reference

The objective of this article is to offer a brief commentary, within a theoretical and conceptual framework, on the drug traffic (which could equally apply, for that matter, to any issue of worldwide import, such as the environment or human rights) that could serve as a point of reference in the relationship between the countries of Latin America (like Colombia) or the Third World and those of the industrialized North, such as the United States.This article will argue that, in dealing with global issues, like that of the narcotraffic, it is necessary to take into account two components with close links to one another. The first of these arises from the fact that global issues require global politics to deal with them.

A reply

1984 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-88
Author(s):  
Stephen D. Krasner
Keyword(s):  
International Economic ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Third World ◽  
International Economic Order ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Policy Prescription ◽  
Liberal Policy

Marc Williams' ‘The Third World and global reform’ raises several fundamental questions about my analysis of the Third World's quest for a New International Economic Order. His most serious criticisms are that I (1) misunderstood the relationship between politics and economics; (2) covertly endorse an orthodox liberal policy prescription for the North; and (3) mis-state the implications that can be drawn from data on the economic situation of developing countries. I will address each of these issues.

The Third World vs.“Superpower”

Worldview ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 18 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 15-18
Author(s):  
O. Edmund Clubb
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Third World ◽  
The United States ◽  
General Assembly ◽  
Postwar Period ◽  
The Third ◽  
Long Run ◽  
Willy Brandt ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

Speaking before the U.N. General Assembly in September, 1973, Chancellor Willy Brandt said: “Where hunger prevails, there can be no peace in the long run. Where bitter poverty prevails, there can be no justice.” He called upon the Assembly members to adopt a position on the moral aspects of international coexistence. And he said something else, that there is a limit to the expansion of power—“a limit where power becomes transformed into impotence.”His words had direct relevance to the relationship between the United States and the Third World. In the postwar period, in pursuit of its power aims, the United States concerned itself with ex-colonial countries primarily with the view of “saving” them, as political entities, from a dreaded “Communist conquest.”

Economic Dependency in the 1980s: Its impact on Third World Elderly

1984 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-44 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheila M. Neysmith ◽  
Joey Edwardh
Keyword(s):  
Social Relations ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Third World ◽  
Old People ◽  
Economic Relations ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
The Third ◽  
Alternative Perspective ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACTThe purpose of this paper is to explore an alternative perspective for understanding individual and societal ageing within the context of global economic and social relations. The dependent status of Third World nations as a result of the process of capital accumulation is examined. It is argued that the manner in which Third World nations respond to the human needs of their old is subject to the relationship that entwines Third World and capitalist industralised nations. Moreover, it is argued that social policy and human service models are nurtured by the ideology underlying these economic relations. The assumptions behind two policy areas are examined. When diffused to Third World nations such social policies function to maintain national elites at the expense of the majority. In conclusion, questions are raised about the relevance of western models of ageing to the needs of old people in the Third World.

Dependence on Foreign Investment and Economic Growth in the Third World

1982 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 175-196 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert W. Jackman
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Foreign Investment ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Third World ◽  
The Third ◽  
Shape Pattern ◽  
Initial Wealth ◽  
The Third World ◽  
Rates Of Growth ◽  
The Relationship

Estimates of the extent to which Third World countries have experienced slower rates of growth than those in the industrialized West since i960 indicate a weak relation between initial wealth and subsequent economic growth that follows an inverted U-shape pattern: while the lowest growth rates are found among the poorest countries of the Third World, the highest growth rates are found not in the industrialized West, but in the wealthiest Third World countries. Drawing on contending arguments associated with modernization and dependency perspectives, the relationship between foreign investment and growth within the Third World is examined. Results undermine the idea that foreign investment inhibits growth, suggesting instead that flows of foreign investment may facilitate growth, especially among the initially wealthier countries of the Third World.

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