Shmuel N Eisenstadt
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586459 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shmuel N Eisenstadt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shmuel N |
| FAMILY NAME | Eisenstadt |
| SIGNATURE | EISENSTADT S N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 122 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 474 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 118 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 4 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1948 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Theorie und Moderne - Soziologische Essays: Herausgegeben und Eingeleitet Von Gerhard Preyer
Einleitung von Gerhard Preyer Multiple Modernities: Ein neues Forschungsprogramm der soziologischen Theorie
Theorie und Moderne – Soziologische Essays: Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Gerhard Preyer
Immigration and Immigrant Absorption in The State of Israel
Immigration and Immigrant Absorption in The State of Israel - 1 - General Background and Data
Conclusions
Conclusions - 1
The Absorption of New Immigrants in Israel
The Absorption of New Immigrants in Israel - 1 - The Development of A New Society
The Oriental Jews in Palestine
The Oriental Jews in Palestine - 1
The Zionist Movement and Ideology
The development of the Zionist movement and ideology in the late nineteenth century can only be understood within the context of the social and cultural processes. The Zionist movement itself began to crystallize in the groups of Hovevei Zion , principally in Russia, from about the 1870s and gathered momentum following the pogroms in the early 1880s. The Zionist movement and ideology have sometimes been defined as the culmination of modern Jewish…
Israeli Society in the 1980s–Trends, Developments and Problems
The late 1970s and the early 1980s were a period of new developments and great changes in Israeli society. Most of these changes were connected with the great political change which began in 1977, and was reinforced in the 1981 elections, when Likud became the dominant party in Israeli politics, until September 1983 under the Prime Ministership of Menahem Begin. The combination of the new policies and the new themes, the movement of new social gr…
The Transformation of Israeli Society: An Essay in Interpretation
This book discusses the development and organization of the major spheres of life of Israeli society. It analyses major aspects and trends of development of Israeli society which have been taking place continuously since its beginning, from the early period of Zionist settlement in Eretz Israel
Introduction: Paths to Early Modernities—A Comparative View
In the European context, early modernity refers to the period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, when territorial states became major vehicles for resource mobilization and for the construction of collective identities. Theories of modernization and of modernity, as formulated in the fifties and sixties, were based on the assumption of convergence. Modernity has spread to most of the world but has not given rise to a single civilizat…
Public Spheres & Collective Identities
The challenge of multiple modernities
Modern sociology as it developed in Europe in the nineteenth century - and later also in the United States - was focused on the understanding of modernity as it took shape in Europe. Developments in Ali or most societies indicate that the various institutional arenas - economie, politicai and familial - exhibit relatively autonomous dimensions that come together in different ways in different societies and in different periods of their developmen…
Music on Demand: Composers and Careers in the Hollywood Film Industry
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 divis…
Multiple Modernities
The Political Systems of Empires
Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems. The imaginative use of data helps to bring order into what might oth…
From Generation to Generation
The republication of From Generation to Generation-almost half a century after its first appearance in 1956-constitutes a good occasion for a look at the way in which problems of youth and generations developed in contemporary societies. In this brilliant, pioneering effort, different approaches in the social sciences to the analysis of these issues receive close scrutiny. Eisenstadt reexamines these issues by including in this edition several ne…
Civilizations
The approach to the civilizational dimension in sociological analysis presented here is based on a shift in the comparative analysis of institutions that took place in the early 1970s. This was essentially a move from a strong emphasis on structural differentiation, as well as to some extent on ecological factors, as the major criteria according to which societies have to be compared (an emphasis to be found in many of the evolutionary approaches…
Theorizing of the Iranian Revolution of 1978–1979: The Multiple Contexts of the Iranian Revolution
Generations, Sociology of
Ancient Civilizations
One of the most important differences among Ancient civilizations of Eurasia and the Near East, is that between archaic and Axial ones. The archaic societies were characterized by a relatively low level of autonomy of the different elites. Axial civilizations constitute one of the most dramatic revolutionary developments that have shaped the course of human history. Axial civilizations constitute one of the most fascinating developments in the hi…
Die neuen religiösen Konstellationen im Rahmen gegenwärtiger Globalisierung und kultureller Transformation
Latin America and the Problem of Multiple Modernities
This chapter presents a few remarks on the relevance of research on Latin America and its patterns of citizenship, as seen within the framework of multiple modernities. The first multiple modernities have been the United States and the different societies of South and Central America and the Caribbean that were defined as ‘Latin America’ since the midnineteenth century - the societies discussed in the chapter. The idea of multiple modernities pre…
América Latina y el problema de las múltiples modernidades11Este texto fue originalmente publicado en inglés en: Mario Sznajder, Luis Roniger y Carlos Forment (eds.), (2013) Shifting Frontiers of Citi…
Las primeras múltiples modernidades: Identidades colectivas, esferas públicas y orden político en las Américas
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Patrons, Clients and Friends: Interpersonal Relations and the Structure of Trust in Society
The form of social relations described by the terms 'patronage' and 'patron-client relations' is of central concern to sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists today. Characterised by its voluntary and highly personal but often fully institutionalised nature, it is a type of behaviour found in almost every human society. It touches upon basic aspects of the construction and regulation of social order and is therefore closely connect…
From Generation to Generation
The republication of From Generation to Generation-almost half a century after its first appearance in 1956-constitutes a good occasion for a look at the way in which problems of youth and generations developed in contemporary societies. In this brilliant, pioneering effort, different approaches in the social sciences to the analysis of these issues receive close scrutiny. Eisenstadt reexamines these issues by including in this edition several ne…
The Reconstruction of Religious Arenas in the Framework of `Multiple Modernities
There has lately taken place a far-reaching resurgence or reconstruction of the religious dimension in the contemporary world. It is manifested among others in the rise of new religious, especially fundamentalist and communal-national movements, and in the crystallisation of new diasporas with a prominent religious identity. This reconstruction transcends the vision of the classical cultural and political program of modernity and of the ‘classica…
Axial Civilizations and World History
The overarching theme of the book is the historical meaning of the Axial Age, commonly defined as a period of several centuries around the middle of the last millennium BCE, and its cultural innovations. The civilizational patterns that grew out of this exceptionally creative phase are a particularly rewarding theme for comparative analysis. The book contains essays on cultural transformations in Ancient Greece, Ancient Israel, Iran, India and Ch…
The Civilizational Dimension in Sociological Analysis
The civilizational turn in sociological theory is best understood as an attempt to do full justice to the autonomy of culture (against all versions of structural-functional theory) without conceding the issue to cultural determinism. Civilizational formations are based on combinations of cultural visions of the world with regulative frameworks of social life, but the relationship between the two levels is open to conflicting interpretations and s…
The Civilizational Dimension of Modernity: Modernity as a Distinct Civilization
The view of modernity as a distinct civilization implies that modernity has to be seen as a new type of civilization - not unlike the formation and expansion of the Great Religions. According to this view, the core of modernity is the crystallization and development of mode or modes of interpretation of the world, or of a distinct social imaginaire, indeed of the ontological vision, of a distinct cultural programme, combined with the development …
The Transformation of Israeli Society: An Essay in Interpretation
This book discusses the development and organization of the major spheres of life of Israeli society. It analyses major aspects and trends of development of Israeli society which have been taking place continuously since its beginning, from the early period of Zionist settlement in Eretz Israel
The Political Systems of Empires
Winner of the prestigious MacIver Award when it was first published, this remains a towering work of modern political sociology, especially of macrosociology. Its main objective is comparative analysis of political commonalities found in different societies, both historical and present. The book seeks to find some pattern or laws in the structure and development of such systems. The imaginative use of data helps to bring order into what might oth…
Primitive Political Systems: A Preliminary Comparative Analysis
Convergence and Divergence of Modern and Modernizing Societies: Indications from the Analysis of the Structuring of Social Hierarchies in Middle Eastern Societies
The question whether modern or “modernizing” societies tend to become similar has been a focus of great preoccupation among scholars—historians, sociologists, or political scientists—who, since the early fifties, have been concerned with the analysis of the contemporary scene, of processes of so-called modernization and development. Most of the studies of modernization in general and of convergence of industrial societies in particular, which dev…
Israeli Identity: Problems in the Development of the Collective Identity of an Ideological Society
Israeli collective identity has developed from some basic ideological-revolutionary premises and faces now, with growing differentiation and stabilization, many new prob lems. The central problem in Israel as in other modern ideo logical societies has been the extent to which commitments to broader values and to collective responsibility can be main tained in the wake of the weakening of specific ideological commitments and orientations. The poss…
The Construction of Collective Identities: Some Analytical and Comparative Indications
This paper is based on four assumptions concerning the analysis of the construction of collective identities. First, such construction, like power and economic relations, is an analytically autonomous basic component of the construction of social life. Second, such constructions have been going on in all human societies throughout history. Third, all such patterns of collective identity have been continually constructed from some basic yet contin…
Functional Analysis in Anthropology and Sociology: An Interpretative Essay
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Transcendental visions-Other worldliness-And its transformations: Some more comments on L. Dumont
Some Observations on the Dynamics of Traditions
This paper is based on certain concepts about the nature of social and cultural order and traditions. We view social and cultural traditions, first, as the major ways of looking at the basic problems of social and cultural order, and of posing the major questions about them; second, as giving various possible answers to these problems; and, third, as the organization of institutional structures for implementing different types of solutions or ans…
Culture and Social Structure Revisited
This article proposes the possibility of recombining the analysis of culture and social structure. In the first part it analyses the reasons for the dissociation between these two types of analysis since the sixties, in close relation with the growing criticisms of the structural-functional school. Its basic assumption is that any new attempt must be based on new ways to combine the analysis of the crystallization of different aspects of social s…
Theorie und Moderne – Soziologische Essays: Herausgegeben und eingeleitet von Gerhard Preyer
América Latina y el problema de las múltiples modernidades11Este texto fue originalmente publicado en inglés en: Mario Sznajder, Luis Roniger y Carlos Forment (eds.), (2013) Shifting Frontiers of Citi…
The Paradox of Democratic Regimes: Fragility and Transformability
In most of the vast scholarly literature on constitutional-democratic regimes, the major emphasis has been on the broader social, economic, or cultural conditions conducive to their development, breakdown, or consolidation and continuity (Diamond 1993b; Diamond, Linz, and Lipset 1989, 1990). The major thesis of this essay is that fragility and instability are inherent in the very constitution of modern constitutional-democratic regimes, and are r…
Comparative studies and sociological theory: Autobiographical notes
The Form of Sociology: Paradigms and Crises
Generational Conflict and Intellectual Antinomianism
This paper attempts to account for some of the special characteristics of contemporary student rebellion, and especially for the fact that probably for the first time in history at least some parts of this movement tend to become entirely dissociated from broader social or national movements—from the adult world—and exhibit general and widespread alienation from the existing social order. These characteristics are explained at least partially by …
Modernidade japonesa: A Primeira Modernidade Múltipla Não Ocidental
IN este artigo, considerando a estrutura analítica das múltiplas modernidades, analisamos algumas características distintivas do moderno sistema político e social japonês 1 .A hipótese básica da abordagem das múltiplas modernidades é a de que as ordens institucionais modernas de modernidade (as quais se desenvolveram com a institucionalização das ordens culturais e políticas da modernidade) não se desenvolveram de modo uniforme ao redor do mundo …
Structure and History: Introductory Observations
The explanation of historical change and especially of radical revolutionary change has been in the forefront of comparative sociological and historical analyses from the beginning. It was closely related to central problems of sociological analysis such as those of the nature of the basic constituents of social order, of the relationship between human agency, social structure and history, and of the relations between culture and social structure…
Civilizational Formations and Political Dynamics. The Stein Rokkan Lectur 1985
Some Remarks on Demographic Factors in a Situation of Culture Contact
The Relations Between Sociological Theory and Anthropological Research
Approaches to the Problem of Political Development in Non-Western Societies
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Planned Migration--The Social Determinants of the Dutch-Canadian Movement
Primitive Political Systems: A Preliminary Comparative Analysis
Essays on Comparative Institutions
The Changing Institutional Setting and Social Problems of the Israeli Educational System
Israeli Identity: Problems in the Development of the Collective Identity of an Ideological Society
Israeli collective identity has developed from some basic ideological-revolutionary premises and faces now, with growing differentiation and stabilization, many new prob lems. The central problem in Israel as in other modern ideo logical societies has been the extent to which commitments to broader values and to collective responsibility can be main tained in the wake of the weakening of specific ideological commitments and orientations. The poss…
Israeli Society
The Protestant Ethic and Modernization: A Comparative View
Current Research in Comparative Sociological Analysis
Some Observations on the Dynamics of Traditions
This paper is based on certain concepts about the nature of social and cultural order and traditions. We view social and cultural traditions, first, as the major ways of looking at the basic problems of social and cultural order, and of posing the major questions about them; second, as giving various possible answers to these problems; and, third, as the organization of institutional structures for implementing different types of solutions or ans…
Generational Conflict and Intellectual Antinomianism
This paper attempts to account for some of the special characteristics of contemporary student rebellion, and especially for the fact that probably for the first time in history at least some parts of this movement tend to become entirely dissociated from broader social or national movements—from the adult world—and exhibit general and widespread alienation from the existing social order. These characteristics are explained at least partially by …
Contemporary Student Rebellions - Intellectual Rebellion and Generational Conflict
Beyond many features which contemporary student currents share with other types of youth movements, the contemporary student movements evince also some new ones. Of these, two are perhaps most outstanding. There is, first, that probably for the first time in history at least some parts of these movements tend to become entirely dissociated from broader social or national movements, from the adult world, and do not tend to accept any adult models …
Readings in Social Evolution and Development
Modelos de comunicación en los imperios centralizados
Cultural Models and Political Systems
In this paper an attempt is made to indicate some possible relations between the working of political systems and, on the one hand, some aspects of “culture” and, on the other hand, various aspects of power and market relations. The discussion begins with some recent attempts to explain the variability of modern and modernizing societies in other terms than those offered in the earlier studies of modernization which heavily emphasized the differe…
Some Reflections on the Crisis in Sociology
Claims that sociology must be divided into closed ideological and paradigmatic camps are critically examined. Convergences among the major analytical approaches are considered and possible explanations explored
Beispiele grundlegender, primärer Rollen
Auf der Basis einer vergleichenden Studie verschiedener Gesellschaftstypen untersucht Eisenstadt die Funktionen (speziell jugendlicher) Altersgruppen für Fortbestand und Wandel der Gesellschaft. Die strukturellen Bedingungen für die Entwicklung von Altersgruppen sieht er u. a. in der gesellschaftlichen Ausdifferenzierung von Altersrollen
Convergence and Divergence of Modern and Modernizing Societies: Indications from the Analysis of the Structuring of Social Hierarchies in Middle Eastern Societies
The question whether modern or “modernizing” societies tend to become similar has been a focus of great preoccupation among scholars—historians, sociologists, or political scientists—who, since the early fifties, have been concerned with the analysis of the contemporary scene, of processes of so-called modernization and development. Most of the studies of modernization in general and of convergence of industrial societies in particular, which dev…
The Formation of National States in Western Europe. Charles Tilly
The Form of Sociology: Paradigms and Crises
Macro-Sociology: Theory, Analysis and Comparative Studies
The Format of Jewish History—some Reflections on Weber's Ancient Judaism
Journal Article THE FORMAT OF JEWISH HISTORY—SOME REFLECTIONS ON WEBER'S ANCIENT JUDAISM Get access S. N. Eisenstadt S. N. Eisenstadt HEBREW UNIVERSITY Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Modern Judaism - A Journal of Jewish Ideas and Experience, Volume 1, Issue 2, September 1981, Pages 217–234, https://doi.org/10.1093/mj/1.2.217 Published: 01 September 1981
The axial age: The emergence of transcendental visions and the rise of clerics
In the first millennium before the Christian era a revolution took place in the realm of ideas and their institutional base which had irreversible effects on several major civilizations and on human history in general. The revolution or series of revolutions, which are related to Karl Jaspers' ‘Axial Age’, have to do with the emergence, conceptualization and institutionalization of a basic tension between the transcendental and mundane orders. Th…
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