Spohn, Willfried

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[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","23"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","European Journal of Social Theory"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","39"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","14"],["dc.contributor.author","Spohn, Willfried"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T08:59:46Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T08:59:46Z"],["dc.date.issued","2011"],["dc.description.abstract","The aim of this article is to assess Arnason's civilizational theory and methodology and their application to non-Western civilizations from a historical-comparative sociological perspective. Although civilizational analysis and historical sociology as historical-comparative orientations in sociology are closely connected, civilizational analysis concentrates particularly on the macro-history of civilizations, whereas historical-comparative sociology ( particularly in its American variety) is orientated rather to a meso-and micro-analytical foundation of societal developments and therefore is more time-and context-sensitive. From such a perspective, the article reconstructs, first, Arnason's theoretical and methodological approach to civilizational analysis and discusses his contribution to the civilizational origins and dynamics of the West as a measuring rod for non-European societies. Second, it then assesses Arnason's two major exemplary civilizational studies: the Soviet model in Russia, Eastern Europe and the non-European world as well as the Japanese civilization in the broader East Asian civilizational context. The article concludes with a critical summary of Arnason's highly innovative approach from the vantage point of a recently developing global orientation in historical and comparative sociology."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1177/1368431010394506"],["dc.identifier.isi","287581200003"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/13054"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/23987"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Sage Publications Ltd"],["dc.relation.issn","1368-4310"],["dc.title","World history, civilizational analysis and historical sociology: Interpretations of non-Western civilizations in the work of Johann Arnason"],["dc.title.original","13054"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","358"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","3"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","European Journal of Social Theory"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","374"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","12"],["dc.contributor.author","Spohn, Willfried"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T11:25:59Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T11:25:59Z"],["dc.date.issued","2009"],["dc.description.abstract","This article analyzes the conflictive role of religion in post-1989 Europe. Three major reasons for this are addressed: first, the restoration of structural and cultural pluralism of European civilization since the breakdown of communism entails the reconstitution of the full diversity of European religion. Second, international migration as a crucial part of globalization has intensified, contributing to the transformation of Europe into a complex of multi-cultural and pluri-religious societies. Third, the wave of contemporary globalization has been accompanied by an intensification of inter-civilizational and inter-religious encounters and conflicts - particularly between Christianity and Islam. As a result, European integration and enlargement as a secular and humanist mode of cultural integration and religious governance are basically challenged by this three-fold revitalization of religion. The growing tendency is to respond to this challenge by enhancing the Christian foundations of Europe rather than, as this article argues, to follow a more cosmopolitan, secularist and religious pluralist mode of European cultural integration."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1177/1368431009337351"],["dc.identifier.isi","000272510800004"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/13063"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/56755"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Sage Publications Ltd"],["dc.relation.issn","1368-4310"],["dc.rights","Goescholar"],["dc.rights.uri","https://goescholar.uni-goettingen.de/licenses"],["dc.title","Europeanization, Religion and Collective Identities in an Enlarging Europe A Multiple Modernities Perspective"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]

[["dc.bibliographiccitation.firstpage","49"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.issue","1"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.journal","European Journal of Social Theory"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.lastpage","66"],["dc.bibliographiccitation.volume","13"],["dc.contributor.author","Spohn, Willfried"],["dc.date.accessioned","2018-11-07T08:46:12Z"],["dc.date.available","2018-11-07T08:46:12Z"],["dc.date.issued","2010"],["dc.description.abstract","This article outlines a comparative-civilizational multiple modernities perspective on political sociology. In the context of the major currents within political sociology - modernization approaches, critical and neo-Marxist as well as postmodern and global approaches - it is argued that a comparative-civilizational multiple modernities perspective is defined by several characteristics. First, against functionalist-evolutionist modernization approaches it emphasizes the fragility, contradictions and openness as well as civilizational multiplicity of political modernity and political modernization processes. Second, against critical and neo-Marxist approaches, it insists on the cultural and institutional contradictions of political power, social protest and political conflict. Third, against post-modern and post-colonial micro-sociological approaches, often primarily micro-sociological, it holds to a macro-sociological constructivist orientation. Fourth, against the primarily socio-economic and political-institutional approaches to global political sociology, it again emphasizes the historically changing, culturally contradictory and pluri-civilizational dimensions of international relations and world politics. Though sharing with all these major currents in political sociology some common ground, the outlined comparative-civilizational multiple modernities perspective conceptualizes and analyses, more specifically, the varying impacts of civilizations, empires and world religions on the complex dimensions and levels of the political arena and on power relations in a modernizing and globalizing world."],["dc.identifier.doi","10.1177/1368431009355864"],["dc.identifier.isi","000275564100004"],["dc.identifier.purl","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gs-1/13013"],["dc.identifier.uri","https://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?gro-2/20632"],["dc.notes.intern","Merged from goescholar"],["dc.notes.status","zu prüfen"],["dc.notes.submitter","Najko"],["dc.publisher","Sage Publications Ltd"],["dc.relation.issn","1368-4310"],["dc.rights","Goescholar"],["dc.rights.uri","https://goescholar.uni-goettingen.de/licenses"],["dc.title","Political Sociology: Between Civilizations and Modernities A Multiple Modernities Perspective"],["dc.type","journal_article"],["dc.type.internalPublication","yes"],["dc.type.peerReviewed","yes"],["dc.type.status","published"],["dspace.entity.type","Publication"]]