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In this remarkable study, Robert R. Faulkner shows that the Hollywood film industry, like most work communities, is dominated by a highly productive and visible elite who exercise major influence on the control of available resources, career chances, and access to opportunity. Faulkner traces a network of connections that bind together filmmakers (employers) and composers (employees) and reveals how work is allocated among composers and the division of labor within the Hollywood film community, using statistical analysis and highly revealing personal interviews. One of the very first...

In seiner Darstellung des Prozesses der Modernisierung geht der Autor von Max Webers These über die Bedeutung der protestantischen Ethik und der Kontroverse über die Frage aus, ob zwischen dem Protestantismus und dem Prozeß der Industrialisierung eine direkte Beziehung bestehe oder nicht. In eins mit der Analyse des Modernisierungsprozesses stellt Eisenstadt die Veränderungen in der soziologischen Theorie über diesen Prozeß dar und zeigt sehr detailliert, inwiefern die glatten konzeptuellen Schemata der Nachkriegsjahre sich als untauglich erwiesen haben, die Vielfalt der...

How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, or must a different set of questions be posed in this era of globalization? What, in short, is the nature of modernity? These are some of the questions addressed by the contributors to Multiple Modernities.

Following the theme in an earlier work edited by Shmuel Eisenstadt, Public Spheres and Collective Identities, this book challenges conventional notions of how the...

Today it is assumed that we understand contemporary nationalism and nation-building. Researchers rarely consider the very different traditions from which such state-building emerged. Instead, there is almost too much discussion of the "global village," with its supposed uniformity and inevitable trajectories. We need to view modernity as something other than a single condition with a preordained future. New visions of a modern civilization are emerging throughout the world, calliing for a far-reaching appraisal of the older visions of modernization.

Following Eisenstadt's and...