Samuel N Eisenstadt

Biographic Data

ID3699700
NAMESamuel N Eisenstadt
GIVEN NAMESSamuel N
FAMILY NAMEEisenstadt
SIGNATUREEISENSTADT S N
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS10
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1961
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2006
H-INDEX2

  • Multiple Modernities in the Framework of a Comparative Evolutionary Perspective

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν EisenstadtCHAPTERUnderstanding Change2006

    In this chapter I would like to analyze the implications of the concept of multiple identities from the point of view of paradigms of social and cultural change, especially the evolutionary one. The notion of ‘multiple modernities’ denotes a certain view of the contemporary world — indeed of the history and characteristics of the modern era — that goes against the view long prevalent in scholarly and general discourse (Eisenstadt, 2000, 2002a, 20…

  • Civilizations

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν EisenstadtCHAPTERInternational Encyclopedia of the…2001

  • Cultural Premises and the Limits of Convergence in Modern Societies

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν EisenstadtARTICLEDiogenes1989

    In this paper I shall attempt to analyze some comparative aspects of modern societies which bear on the problem of convergence of modern, especially industrial, societies and the closely related analytical problems of the relations between culture and social structure

  • Les origines de l'État

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν Eisenstadt et al.ARTICLEAnnales Histoire Sciences Sociales1983Cited by: 3References: 2

    La question fascinante à plus d'un titre de l'apparition des premières formes de l'État et de leur dépérissement n'a pas cessé de nourrir la réflexion et les discussions dans toutes les branches des sciences sociales. De Karl Marx à Talcott Parsons et d'Engels à Marshall Sahlins en passant par H. Spencer, F. Oppenheimer, R. Lowie, M. Fortes et E. E. Evans-Pritchard, deux thèmes essentiels ont particulièrement retenu l'attention :- la recherche de…

  • Revolution und die Transformation von Gesellschaften

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν Eisenstadt et al.BOOKRevolution und die Transformation…1982

  • Heterodoxies, Sectarianism and Dynamics of Civilizations

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν EisenstadtARTICLEDiogenes1982

    Heterodoxy, sects and sectarianism seemingly belong to the sphere of religions; they obviously refer to doctrinal organizational and behavioral aspects of dissension within the frameworks of religions. It would, however, be wrong to think that their importance is confined only within such frameworks-broad and important as they are. The importance of heterodoxy and sectarianism is indeed much wider. It is much wider not only because the term sect …

  • The Implications of Weber's Sociology of Religion for the Understanding of the Processes of Change in Contemporary Non-European Societies and Civilization

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν EisenstadtARTICLEDiogenes1974References: 6

    Weber's studies of non-European (or non-Christian) religions constitute the largest part of his Sociology of Religion-comprising most of the Aufsaetze zur Religionssoziologie (1920-1923), as well as large parts of his treatment in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft (1956). Included, as is well known, are relatively full-blown studies of Jewish, Chinese (Confucian) and Indian (Hindu and Buddhist) civilizations, and more dispersed, but very rich appraisal…

  • Innovation in Bureaucratic Institutions

    Alfred Diamant, Samuel N Eisenstadt et al.ARTICLEPublic Administration Review1967

  • The Protestant Ethic Thesis in Analytical and Comparative Context

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν EisenstadtARTICLEDiogenes1967Cited by: 5

    Weber's famous "Protestant Ethic" thesis-the thesis published originally by him as " Die Protestantische Ethik und der Geist des Kapitalismus" in Archiv für Sozialwissenschaft in Sozialpolitik, in 1901-02 (Vol. XX) and reprinted in his Gesammelte Aufsätze für Religionssoziologie, in 1920-which has allegedly attributed the rise of modern, as distinct from pre-modern, types of capitalism to the influence of Protestantism and especially of Calvinism…

  • The Causes of Disintegration and Fall of Empires

    Open AccessSamuel N Eisenstadt, S Ν EisenstadtARTICLEDiogenes1961Cited by: 2

    The preoccupation with the causes of fall of Great Empires has been a continuous focus of interest and object of fascination for historians, philosophers of history and social scientists. It was in their dealing with the causes of downfalls of Empires that historians had at least to imply some of their more general assumptions about human nature and about the nature of society, about the moral and natural forces which sustain or break a social an…