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AbstractAll social systems ‐ including highly repressive ones ‐ manifest features of accommodation as well as those of coercion. These are often seen as discrete entities and, in the case of modern South Africa, the pervasiveness of racial oppression has given rise to a literature which fails to explore more accommodatory ideologies and social practices such as paternalism. In this essay it is argued that paternalism and violence are not necessarily exclusive phenomena. Indeed, it is suggested that the very presence of paternalistic relationships can ‐ at various historic junctures ‐ exacerbate the propensity to v

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00159.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractThe paper examines the historical relationships between ironworkers and peasants of Geita and other districts in colonial Tanzania. It explores their material. cultural and symbolic practices, as well as their interaction with merchants, native authorities and the colonial state. It is argued that these ironworkers and peasants. in providing for their social reproduction, confronted the daily challenges of existence through both material (economic) and ideological (cultural) means ‐ at once resisting and accommodating the terms of domination and incorporatio

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00160.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIn late eighteenth‐century Mexico City, the state instituted unprecedented efforts to transform the mores of the poor. Enlightened elites and state bureaucrats energetically limned the vices of the lower classes as both a means of social self‐definition and as a form of cultural proselytizing. This new antagomism between elite and popular culture cut not only across the social formation, but the topography of the city and the body of the individual, as the poor became bracketed with the now shameful functions of the lower body. The Bourbon reforms extended not only into daily life and Mexico City's increasingly monitored public places, but provided a focus for elite identity format

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00161.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractIt has been proposed, and accepted, commonly, often as part of a whiggish tale of humanity breaking the shackles of the past, that an Early Modern Europe paved the way, with its Scientific Revolution, for an ‘industrial condition’ to come. Yet interpretations of that ‘revolution’ have involved making some suspect general conclusions about a new, standard ‘rationality’ of conduct and a new norm suitable for constructed science. Furthermore, commonly‐accepted generalizations about the advent and spread of Industrial Revolution are not well supported by the available evidence, especially where the case has been linked to an indisti

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00162.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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AbstractSociology has benefited from inquiries into the theoretical potential in the writings associated with individual ‘authors’, as well as from the examination of research ‘topics’ through the works of two or more writers. Of these complementary approaches, the latter provides the basis for this essay. The focus here is on the ‘spirit’ of modern capitalism from the standpoint of the formulations by Veblen and Weber. These writers provide alternative hypotheses on the decisive variable instrumental to the spirit of capitalism, namely, technology and religion respectively. In most other respects there is remarkable similarity in the two writings. The present analysis has enabled the comprehension of the spirit of capitalism in terms of four sequential phases. These are:early capitalism(capitalism as spirit);early‐modern capitalism(capitalism as spirit and economic organization);late‐modern capitalism(spiritless capitalism); andpost‐modernity(society in

ISSN:0952-1909    

DOI:10.1111/j.1467-6443.1992.tb00163.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY