Order 1191736: Read Instructions

Guidelines:

You need to use at least 7 scholarly references.

Use the Harvard referencing system for intext references and Reference List (details available on the Library webpage).

Upload your essay via BlackBoard. Please insert the Assignment cover sheet at the start of your essay document.

Topic 1:

Is globalisation leading to a single, homogenised global society and culture? What does the idea of multiple modernities contribute to debate on this question?

To address this topic adequately, you need to:

· present the idea that globalisation is leading to social and cultural homogenization

· outline the multiple modernities perspective’s view on the issue

· provide empirical evidence to support your argument. This should draw on material presented in the case studies of multiple modernities we have covered in the unit. Evidence of homogenisation may also be relevant to your argument.

Topic 2:

Case Study of a non-European experience of modernisation and modernity. To what extent has modernisation involved westernisation?

To address this topic adequately, you need to:

· present the broad contours of ‘classical’ modernisation’ theory and its expectations about the outcome of modernization

· outline the multiple modernities perspective’s critique of classical modernisation theory

Tips:

Make sure you address all of the components of the question.

You will find relevant references in the weekly ‘Lecture Notes and Reading’, and ‘Further Reading’.

When reading for your essay, focus on the topic and the information that is relevant to it. You do not have to digest the entire article if it is not relevant. Rather, your efforts should be directed towards identifying relevant sections and making sure you understand them.

Arnason, J P 1999 ‘East Asian Approaches: Region, History and Civilization’, Thesis Eleven, Vol.57(1), p.97-112

Arnason, JP 2007 ‘Civilizational analysis: a paradigm in the making’, in Robert Holton (ed) World Civilizations, in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, EOLSS Publishers, Oxford, UK, http://www.eolss.net

Asad, T 1997, 'Europe against Islam: Islam in Europe', Muslim World, vol. 87, no. 2, p. 183.

Baykan, A and R Robertson 2002 ‘Spatializing Turkey’ in Ben-Rafael, E & Sternberg, Y (eds) Identity, Culture and Globalization, Brill, Leiden, pp3-17.

Ben-Rafael, E & Sternberg, Y (eds), 2002 'Analyzing our Time,' in Identity, Culture and Globalization, Brill, Leiden, pp3-17

Ben-Rafael, E and Y Sternberg (eds) 2002, Identity, Culture and Globalization (Annals of the International Institute of Sociology, 8), Brill, Leiden.

Ben-Rafael, ES and Y Sternberg 2005. Comparing Modernities: Pluralism Versus Homogenity. Essays in Homage to Shmuel N. Eisenstadt, Brill, Leiden

Delanty, G 2003, 'The Making of a Postwestern Europe: A Civilizational Analysis', Thesis Eleven, vol. 72, no. 1, pp. 8-25

Delanty, G 2005 Handbook of contemporary European and Social Theory

Delanty, G and P O'Mahony 2002 Nationalism and Social Theory: Modernity and the Recalcitrance of the Nation, Sage London.

Devji, F 2007, ‘Apologetic Modernity’, Modern Intellectual History, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 61-76, Dirlik, A 2003, 'Global Modernity? Modernity in an Age of Global Capitalism', European Journal of Social Theory, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 275-292.

Drew, G 2007 Development within Multiple Modernities, University of North Carolina

Eisenstadt, SN 1986 [1973] ‘The Protestant Ethic and the emrgence of European Modernity’ in Traditon, Change and Modernity, Robert E Krieger Publishing company, Malabar, FL

Eisenstadt, SN 1986 [1973] ‘The Major Premises of European Modernity’ in Traditon, Change and Modernity, Robert E Krieger Publishing company, Malabar, FL

Eisenstadt, SN 1999 ‘Some considerations on modernity’, in Fundamentalism, Sectarianism and Revolution, CUP, Cambridge, UK

Eisenstadt, SN 1989 ‘Cultural Tradition, Historical Experience, and Social Change: The Limits of Convergence’, The Tanner Lectures on Human Values, University of California, Berkeley.

Eisenstadt, SN 1987 ‘Introduction: Historical Traditions, Modernization and Development, in SN Eisenstadt (ed) Patterns of Modernity, Vol 1, Frances Pinter, London.

Eisenstadt, SN 2000 ‘The Civilizational Dimension in Sociological Analysis’, Thesis Eleven, vol 62, pp1-21.

Eisenstadt, SN 2000 ‘The Axial Age’, in Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick. (ebook)

Eisensadt, SN 2003 Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities, Brill, Leiden.

Eisenstadt, SN 2003 ‘Globalization, civilizational traditions and multiple modernities’ in Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities, Brill, Leiden. ebook)

Eisenstadt, SN 2003 Ch 21 ‘Multiple Modernities in an Age of Globalization,’ in Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities, Brill, Leiden.

Eisenstadt, SN 2003 Ch 38 ‘The reconstruction of religious arenas in the framework of multiple modernities’ in Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities, Brill, Leiden. Ebook.

Eisenstadt, SN 2003 Ch 36 ‘Civilizational traditions and multiple modernities’, in Comparative Civilizations and Multiple Modernities, Brill, Leiden.

Eisenstadt SN(ed) 2005 Multiple Modernities, Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick

Fourie, E 2012 ‘A future for the theory of multiple modernities: Insights from the new modernisation theory’ Social Science Information, 51, 1 pp.52-69

Kamali, M 2006 Multiple modernities, civil society and Islam: the case of Iran and Turkey, Liverpool: Liverpool Universkity Press

Kamali, M 2007, 'Multiple Modernities and Islamism in Iran', Social Compass, vol. 54, no. 3, pp. 373-387,

Kilnani, S 1997 The Idea of India, London: Penguin

Knobl, W 2006, 'Of contingencies and breaks: the US American South as an anomaly in the debate on multiple modernities', Archives européennes de sociologie, vol. XLVII, no. 1, pp. 125-157, Ebscohost, viewed 7th July 2009.

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Kaya, I 2004 ‘Islam and Modernity: Radical openness to interpretation’ in Social Theory and Later Modernities: The Turkish Experience. Liverpool University Press, Liverpool. Ebook

Karagiannis, N and Wagner, P 2007 Varieties of World-Making: beyond globalisation

Keyman, EF 2007 Remaking Turkey L: global alternative modernity and Democracy

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Lu, J 2008, 'Multiple Modernities and Multiple Proximities: American Internet Companies' Predicament in China', Conference Papers -- International Communication Association, 2008 Annual Meeting, pp. 1-32.

Mozaffari 2002 Globalisation and civilisations Routledge ebook

Nandy, A and Jahanbegloo 2012 Talking india: Ashis Nandy in conversation with Ramin Jahanbegloo, Oxford Scholarship online (especially ‘Tradition and Modernity’)