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Xu Hong - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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"Utopia" and "Kingdom of Justice"——Plato and Bab’s Thoughts on Social Reformation
Journal of Tongren Vocational & Technical College, 2008Co-Authors: Xu HongAbstract:Plato who is the famous philosopher and Social Thinker in ancient Greece, carefully designed a world of "Utopia". Bab who is the reformer of politic and religious movement in Iran, put forward the scheme about a"Kingdom of Justice". Although they each lived in societies two thousand years apart, both have many similarities regarding Social background and thoughts on Social reformation.
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Utopia and Kingdom of Justice:Outlook of Social Reform of Plato and Bab
Journal of Wuhan University of Technology, 2008Co-Authors: Xu HongAbstract:Plato,the famous philosopher and Social Thinker in ancient Greece,carefully designed the good desire about Utopia.Bab,a reformer of politic and religious movement in Iran,put forward a similar scheme about Kingdom of Justice.The western and eastern Utopias not only have some differences with different culture,district and time,but also have some similarities.This thesis analyzes and compares their outlooks of Social reform from several aspects,such as their Social backgrounds,the characters of ideal societies and the ways to realize,and points out the limitations of their thinking and the positive significance.
Wale Adebanwi - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The writer as Social Thinker
Journal of Contemporary African Studies, 2014Co-Authors: Wale AdebanwiAbstract:Social theory in, and Social theorising about, Africa has largely ignored African literature. Yet, the works of African writers constitute potential sources for the analysis of Social thought and for constructing Social theory in the continent. Indeed, African writers offer the kinds of abstractions, comparisons, frameworks and critical reflections on the African lifeworld – and the place of the African in the global context in the longue duree – without which it will be impossible to fully account for the nature of being, existence and reality and the nature and scope of knowledge in the African context. This introduction to the special issue on ‘Writers and Social Thought in Africa’ attempts to bring the Social sciences back into conversation with literature (and vice versa) in re-articulating the philosophical dimensions of literature and the Social sciences. It re-emphasises the role of African creative writers, not merely as intellectuals whose works mirror or can be used to mirror Social thought, bu...
Syed Farid Alatas - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ibn Khaldūn and Contemporary Sociology
International Sociology, 2006Co-Authors: Syed Farid AlatasAbstract:This review is focused on a central question : why should a Social Thinker like Ibn Khaldun be excluded from the serious study of the history of sociology, sociological theory of historical sociology? A quick review of contemporary histories of Social thought and Social theory will reveal that very little attention is given to non-western Social Thinkers who were contemporaneous with the European founders of the discipline. Nineteenth- and early 20th-century western sociologists, on the other hand, were more aware of the role of non-western thought in the development of western sociology as a discipline. This interest will not be found to have waned in the las century.
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Ibn Khaldun and Contemporary Sociology
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2006Co-Authors: Syed Farid AlatasAbstract:This review is focused on a central question: why should a Social Thinker like Ibn Khaldu¯ n be excluded from the serious study of the history of sociology, sociological theory or historical sociology? A quick review of contemporary histories of Social thought and Social theory will reveal that very little attention is given to non-western precursors of sociology or non-western Social Thinkers who were contemporaneous with the European founders of the discipline. Nineteenth- and early 20th-century western sociologists, on the other hand, were more aware of the role of non-western thought in the development of western sociology as a discipline. This interest will be found to have waned in the last century. Nineteenth-century European founders of sociology such as Marx, Weber and Durkheim had such an impact on the development of sociology and the other Social sciences that many theories and models derived from their works were applied to areas outside Europe, that is, to the non-western world. The same attitude was not applied to non-western Social Thinkers. Without suggesting that European or western ideas have no relevance to non-European realities, this article suggests that multicultural sources of sociological thought and theory should be considered. Ibn Khaldu¯ n died 600 years ago, but his ideas have endured. Nevertheless, there is a way in which he has been appropriated, resulting in his somewhat marginal status in contemporary sociology. This review provides an overview of Ibn Khaldu¯ n’s work and thought, discusses reasons for his marginality, and suggests ways to bring Ibn Khaldu¯ n into the mainstream.
Piero Barucci - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Ripensare oggi Giuseppe Toniolo (Rethinking Giuseppe Toniolo)
2014Co-Authors: Piero BarucciAbstract:Toniolo was altogether an economist and a Social Thinker. As economist he constituted an objective obstacle for the introduction and development of neo-classical economic theory in Italy. As a Social Thinker Toniolo set the bases of the ‘economic doctrine’ of Catholic Church. This doctrine was then largely utilized for many decades, even during the years of the foundation of the Italian Republic Constitution. As the Toniolo’s heritage is still alive, the author is tempted to think that the idea in favour of a mixed economy not only is still wide-spread, but is also intended to survive.
Arthur J. Vidich - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Veblen, Weber and Marx on political economy
International Journal of Politics Culture and Society, 1993Co-Authors: Michael W. Hughey, Arthur J. VidichAbstract:Veblen is unique as an American Social Thinker. Unlike most of his contemporaries, whose work expresses a celebration of America and its val? ues, Veblen examined the operation of American society from a stance of personal and intellectual distance. It is perhaps because of this that he has been so consistently misunderstood and misinterpreted by both critics and admirers. Indeed, the extent of this failure to understand Veblen on his own terms might properly be regarded as one of the great scandals of American intellectual history. No one, it seems, has attempted to assess the whole of Veblen's work as it is intended, i.e., as a comprehensive and systematic analysis and critique of the structure and operations of contem? porary capitalism and its cultural values. In this book and in the two forthcoming volumes of a planned trilogy, an American scholar attempts a full-scale reassessment of the value of Thorstein Veblen's work. Professor Tilman examines Veblen's work by placing his ideas in their original intellectual and ideological setting and by scrutinizing them in relation to various European and American eco? nomic and sociological theories. His aim, it appears, is to resurrect the value of Veblen's work for new generation of Social Thinkers. In the present volume, Tilman examines Veblen's work as it has been perceived, evaluated, and criticized by major writers from 1891 to 1963. Grouping these writers according to their ideological perspectives, his chapters are devoted to the reactions of "Conservative Critics" (John Cummings, Richard Teggart), including its University of Chicago (Frank Knight, Abram Harris) and religious (Lev Dobriansky) variants; "Liberal Critics," including "Progressives" (George Herbert Mead, Richard Ely), "Institutionalists" (Wesley Mitchell, Paul Homan, John Commons, John Maurice Clark), "Neoinstitutionalists" (Clarence Ayres, Allan Gruchy), and Harvard and Columbia sociologists (Talcott Parsons, David Riesman, Daniel Bell, Pitirim Sorokin, Robert Merton, Louis Schneider); and