Autore	Turner Bryan S.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London : , : Anthem Press, , 2009
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (162 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
Disciplina	305.2601/12
Collana	Tracts for Our Times
Soggetto topico	Aging - Social aspects Longevity - Social aspects Longevity - Moral and ethical aspects
ISBN	1-283-37777-2 9786613377777 1-84331-806-7
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Longevity and the population debate -- The social utopia of human perfection -- Ancient and modern techniques of longevity -- The political economy of ageing -- The moral and spiritual character of old age -- Vulnerability and the ethic of care -- Towards a new paradigm of ageing -- The aesthetics of ageing.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910459284203321

Autore	Turner Bryan S.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (283 p.)
Disciplina	301.092
Soggetto topico	Sociology
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-134-84956-7 1-280-32584-4 9786610325849 0-203-16384-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface Page; Introduction; Max Weber and the Panic Culture of Postmodernism; Max Weber's Historical Sociology: a Bibliographical Essay; Religion and Tradition; Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses; Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity; State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies: Some Problems in Weberian Sociology of Science; Religion and State-Formation; Rational Bodies; The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline; The Body Politic: The Secularization of Sovereign Bodies; Modernization and Capitalism Simmel, Rationalization and the Sociology of Money Nietzsche, Weber and the Devaluation of Politics: The Problem of State Legitimacy; Conclusion; Sociology and the Science of 'Man'; References; Name index; Subject index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455190703321

Autore	Turner Bryan S.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (283 p.)
Disciplina	301.092
Soggetto topico	Sociology
ISBN	1-134-84955-9 1-134-84956-7 1-280-32584-4 9786610325849 0-203-16384-2
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface Page; Introduction; Max Weber and the Panic Culture of Postmodernism; Max Weber's Historical Sociology: a Bibliographical Essay; Religion and Tradition; Islam, Capitalism and the Weber Theses; Origins and Traditions in Islam and Christianity; State, Science and Economy in Traditional Societies: Some Problems in Weberian Sociology of Science; Religion and State-Formation; Rational Bodies; The Rationalization of the Body: Reflections on Modernity and Discipline; The Body Politic: The Secularization of Sovereign Bodies; Modernization and Capitalism Simmel, Rationalization and the Sociology of Money Nietzsche, Weber and the Devaluation of Politics: The Problem of State Legitimacy; Conclusion; Sociology and the Science of 'Man'; References; Name index; Subject index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910779806503321

Autore	Turner Bryan S.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina	306.6 306.697
Soggetto topico	Postmodernism - Social aspects Religion and sociology Culture Intellectuals East and West Islamic civilization Civilization, Modern - 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-134-83941-3 1-138-14743-5 1-280-15684-8 0-203-42725-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Orientalism, postmodernism and religion; Orientalism and the problem of civil society in Islam; Accounting for the Orient; Conscience in the construction of religion; Gustave von Grunebaum and the mimesis of Islam; Politics and culture in Islamic globalism; From orientalism to global sociology; The concept of 'the world' in sociology; Nostalgia, postmodernism and the critique of mass culture; Two faces of sociology: global or national?; Ideology and utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia; From regulation to risk The self and reflexive modernityConclusion; References; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910455444803321

Autore	Turner Bryan S.
Pubbl/distr/stampa	London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1994
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (241 p.)
Disciplina	306.6 306.697
Soggetto topico	Postmodernism - Social aspects Religion and sociology Culture Intellectuals East and West Islamic civilization Civilization, Modern - 20th century
ISBN	1-134-83940-5 1-134-83941-3 1-138-14743-5 1-280-15684-8 0-203-42725-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Orientalism, postmodernism and religion; Orientalism and the problem of civil society in Islam; Accounting for the Orient; Conscience in the construction of religion; Gustave von Grunebaum and the mimesis of Islam; Politics and culture in Islamic globalism; From orientalism to global sociology; The concept of 'the world' in sociology; Nostalgia, postmodernism and the critique of mass culture; Two faces of sociology: global or national?; Ideology and utopia in the formation of an intelligentsia; From regulation to risk The self and reflexive modernityConclusion; References; Index
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910779807503321