In Search of Explanations: Theories of Social, Economic, and Political Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 105-143
Author(s):  
David S. Mason
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic

Pausanias’ Arcadia between Conservatism and Innovation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Baleriaux
Keyword(s):  
Roman Empire ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Religious Landscape ◽  
Of Greece

The vivid survival of traditional features in Arcadian religion under the early Roman Empire is striking. Despite the brutal conquest of Rome and the intrusiveness of its administration, cities were able to keep their most peculiar religious characteristics alive. This chapter investigates this seemingly uninterrupted religious continuity despite remarkable political change. In line with the studies of Alcock and more recently Spawforth, it aims to show that the attitude of Rome towards Hellenism, and in particular the antiquarian attitude to religion it promoted, triggered a cascade of changes in the human, social, economic, political, and religious landscape of Greece. The apparent conservatism of Arcadian religion during that period was not principally ‘resistance’—in the sense of asserting a distinct Greek identity through religion—but was rather largely promoted by the Romans themselves.

Maoism and Marxism in Comparative Perspective

1978 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 307-327
Author(s):  
A. James Gregor ◽  
Maria Hsia Chang
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Comparative Perspective ◽  
Political Tradition ◽  
Friedrich Engels

A great many curious things have befallen Marxism as an intellectual and political tradition, not the least of which was its adoption by the revolutionary forces under the leadership of Mao Tse-tung. Originally, the Marxism of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels was a eurocentric doctrine that addressed itself to a postindustrial revolution that would liberate society from the disabilities produced by intensive industrialization. For classical Marxism, industrialization produced not only the “idiocy of overproduction,” the inability to effectively distribute the abundance produced by capitalism, but generated restive populations that were “overwhelmingly proletarian.” Capitalist industrialization produced both the circumstances precipitating, and the historic agents responsible for, vast social, economic and political change.

scholarly journals Understanding Social, Economic, and Political Change

2019 ◽  
pp. 189-227
Author(s):  
Ewa Czapiewska-Halliday ◽  
Nicholas P. Carter ◽  
Melanie J. Kingsley ◽  
Sarah Newman ◽  
Alyce de Carteret
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic

Egypt and the Myth of the New Middle Class: A Comparative Analysis

1967 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 46-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amos Perlmutter
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Organizational Skills ◽  
Class A ◽  
New Middle Class ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Phases Of Development

Authors in recent literature on developing polities have been searching for a middle class that could and, some even argue, should assume primary responsibility for all phases of development: social, economic, and political. This middle class has been identified as the New Middle Class (NMC). In contrast to the “old” middle class, the authors maintain, the NMC will create leaders; is more numerous; possesses organizational skills; is honest; develops forward-looking “new men”; in short, is shouldering, and should shoulder, social and political change.

Research Facilities in Turkey

1975 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 20-29
Author(s):  
Frank Tachau
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Social Scientists ◽  
The Social ◽  
Trained Personnel ◽  
Research Facilities

In a report on the climate for social science research in Turkey published some seven years ago, Edwin J. Cohn noted that there had been a considerable intensification of interest and activity in the social sciences in Turkey, spurred both by the training of Turkish social scientists and by the increased interest of European and American scholars in Turkish experience with rapid social, economic, and political change. At the same time, Cohn reported, “the climate for research, especially research by Americans, has deteriorated…” This assessment remains basically accurate. Of course, in the intervening years, there have been further developments. Two in particular will be dealt with here: continued increase in institutions, facilities, and trained personnel on the Turkish side; and greater formalization of official rules governing the conduct of research by foreigners.

Postsocialism, Social Value, and Identity Politics among Albanians in Macedonia

Slavic Review ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 882-902 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vasiliki P. Neofotistos
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Social Relations ◽  
Political Change ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Social Value ◽  
Republic Of Macedonia ◽  
Marginalized Groups ◽  
The Republic

In this article, Vasiliki P. Neofotistos analyzes the reappropriation of the term Šiptar, a derogatory Macedonian term for Albanians, by male members of the Albanian community in the Republic of Macedonia. Neofotistos shows how the reappropriation of the ethnic slur reflects constellations of social value, that is to say, larger systems of meaning and action concerning who and what is valued in life, that have emerged with Macedonian independence. Albanian men tap into familiar divisions found in the larger Macedonian society and create meaningful forms of collectivity as they deal with rapid social, economic, and political change in the context of Macedonia's postsocialist transformation of social practices and ideals. This case study of Macedonia sheds light on the dynamics of social relations within socially marginalized groups.

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