T Waters
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3530 |
|---|---|
| NOME | T Waters |
| PRENOMES | T |
| SOBRENOME | Waters |
| ASSINATURA | WATERS T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | California State University, Chico |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5426-4552 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1984 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Smartphones and ‘doing community’ in Bangkok’s platform economy
This article examines emergent communities of platform-based delivery workers in Bangkok by applying Max Weber’s concept of Vergemeinschaftung or ‘doing community’. Using offline and online ethnographic methods, the authors demonstrate how delivery workers do community on the streets of Bangkok and leverage smartphones and social media to extend their communities to the online realm. These community practices are culturally constituted and share …
The “Consulting Detective” Nithan Thong-in by King Vajiravudh
This short study explores detective stories by Crown Prince Vajiravudh, later King Rama VI, in early 20th-century Siam. Compiled in Nithan Thong-in, these tales provide insights into Siamese society, culture, and history. Despite multiple reprints, an English translation is currently unavailable. This notice introduces the cultural richness of Mr Thong-in’s adventures, along with brief summaries of each story
Schooling, Identity, and Nationhood
Modern Karen education began in the early 1800s when introduced by British and American missionaries at roughly the time the British colonial powers arrived from India. After independence from Great Britain in 1948, Burma faced revolt from ethnic groups including the Karen, in large part, over issues of language and cultural self-rule. This led to the forcible closing of Karen-language schools by the military junta beginning in the 1960s and the …
Thai Menschenbild
Thai Higher Education (Thai HE) is changing, due to international reform. This paper presents data collected in a longitudinal study carried out in Thailand during 2017–2018 using the US version of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) and qualitative interviews. We offer a case study about the cultures and engagement of three groups of students found at an international private university in Thailand. The groups studied were internati…
M. R. Kukrit Pramoj’s theory of good governance and political change
M. R. Kukrit Pramoj wrote Farang Sakdina in 1957–1958 as both a theoretical critique of western development planners, and the Marxist critics of Thai society like Jit Phoumisak. Kukrit’s critique was that both used only European examples to prescribe development policies for Thailand. By this he meant that the Americans insisted on modernization theory, and Soviet theoreticians insisted on Marx’s historical materialism. Kukrit responded that data…
The Gokteik Viaduct
This article explores technical and socio-political factors that impacted construction of the Gokteik Viaduct railway bridge in Shan State, Burma, and the recurring failure of political powers to complete a continuous railway between Rangoon (Yangon) and Yunnan. Under rather contentious circumstances, the British government awarded an American steel company with the contract to construct what would become the world’s longest railway trestle bridg…
Thailand’s Sex Entertainment
Promising research from Thailand already highlights women in the sexual entertainment industry as being active participants in both intimate relationships and commercial transactions simultaneously. Notably, they are neither victims nor alienated laborers, as some activist narratives assert. Women working in Thailand’s sex entertainment industry consistently adapt working cultures to modernity’s demand to reduce sex to a commercial transaction wh…
Why is Peace Elusive in Myanmar? An Answer from the Perspective of Thai Philosopher Prawase Wasi
We re-evaluate Burmese history from the perspective of Thai philosopher Prawase Wasi who asserts that the basis for society is not simply individuals but the “self forming group.” He discusses the essential nature of a self-forming group which is embodied in the Thai Buddhist concept of taam, which are sacred virtues emerging from self-organizing groups. In between the taam and self-forming groups are institutions of the state, economy, and educa…
Cross-National Attunement to Popular Songs across Time and Place
This paper explores empirically Edward T. Hall's assertion about the role of musical elements, including rhythm recognition and what are called "ear worms" in popular culture. To test Hall's assertion, data were collected from the United States, Germany, Tanzania, and Thailand in 2015-2017 using a 26 brief "song intros." Data were also collected from exchange students from South Korea and Turkey. Survey responses were analyzed using factor analys…
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft Societies
Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft societies" refers to definitions established by the German sociologists Ferdinand Tönnies and Max Weber, who described "community and society." Both theorists drew contrasts between a modern society dominated by rational calculations in Gesellschaft (roughly, "market society") and the traditional, affectual values of Gemeinschaft (roughly, "community"). Both saw a strong contrast between these two types of society an…
Max Weber’s Writing as a Product of World War I Europe
Max Weber’s academic writings about the nature of politics, government, bureaucracy, and social structure are, we believe, timeless. But his explicitly political writing directed toward aiding the German war effort of 1914–1918 is bombastic and at times whiny: it was directed at the emotions of his day and is not so timeless, which perhaps explains why little of it has been translated into English. Nevertheless, to understand the timelessness of …
The Distribution of Power Within the Gemeinschaft
This essay is about the roles honor, prestige, and Stand play in the organization of society. Weber wrote that prestige and the accompanying justification of Stand underpins how people organize themselves using the visible markers of rank. In the modern world, though, this can be understood only in the context of the social stratification of social class, as spread by the anonymous actions of the marketplaces. This results in an irony in the mode…
Max Weber’s Sociology in the Twenty-first Century
Max Weber’s contributions to the social sciences remain at the heart of how we speak about ethics, status, ethnicity, class, bureaucracy, and politics. His definition of the state as being “the legitimated monopoly over the use of coercive force in a given territory” is a staple of journalists and social scientists alike. Weber is also credited with highlighting concepts such as “iron cage,” “bureaucracy,” “bureaucratization,” “rationalization,” …
Translation Notes—Special Highlighted Terms in Weber’s Sociological Writings
Every translation requires adjustments, and this is true here as well. German is a language ideally suited to philosophical discourse. Definitions are well known, precise, and understood—by German speakers. This is the case with English, too, but not to the same extent or with the same emphases, which is why we keep words such as Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft in German in our translation. These keywords were added by machine and not by the author…
Politics as Vocation
The questions Weber asks are, "Why and under what circumstances will the people submit? And on which intrinsic internal legal justification, and what external means does domination rely?"KeywordsModern SocietyPolitical OrganizationSupervisory BoardParty LeaderMoral ConvictionThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.
Weber's Rationalism and Modern Society
Bureaucracy
"Bureaucracy" is the essay where Weber develops his ideas about rationalization to the greatest extent. In doing this, he builds on his earlier writings about social stratification and discipline. What he describes is a world that becomes mechanistic—both in the private or public sector. Weber's point is that the purely technical advantages of the bureaucratic machine takes on a life beyond its creator, whether the creator was the charismatic Nap…
Discipline and Charisma
"Discipline and Charisma" underpins Weber's understanding of the rationalization of modern life. As such, it sets the stage for his essay "Bureaucracy," and also, more generally, "Politics as Vocation" and The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. In "Discipline and Charisma," Weber explicitly asks how it is that large groups of humans simultaneously restrain their psychobiological impulses to fit the demands of the industrial age. This …
Saigon's Edge
The new Zeppelin University translation of Weber's 'Class, Status, Party
The Sacred and the Profane in American History Curriculum
The question of why students think there are two kinds of American history taught—one in the K—12 system and one in the university system—can be examined critically using Emile Durkheim's (1973) description of the sacred and the profane. The history taught in K—12 classrooms often focuses on idealized accounts of the past that protect the status quo. K—12 history emphasizes the underlying values that Durkheim calls the sacred, which are reproduce…
Purple Haze
Who Stole Culture From Anthropology
Rejoinder to Howard Adelman's Review of Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan
Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan
Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and moral assumptions of the international refugee relief regime. Tony Waters emphasizes that the agencies delivering humanitarian relief are embedded in rationalized bureaucracies whose values are determined by their institutional frameworks. The demand for victims is observed in the close relation between the interests…
The new Zeppelin University translation of Weber's 'Class, Status, Party
The Persistence of Subsistence and the Limits to Development Studies
There are two general approaches to assessing what is known as 'development'. First, there are classical accounts focusing on Europe's development during the industrial revolution. They describe how urban areas expanded at the expense of the social and economic resources of the rural areas, disrupting an independent subsistence peasantry. A major consequence is that today all Europeans are dependent socially, politically, and economically on the …
Beyond Structural Adjustment
Depending on who you listen to, structural adjustment has led to either rapid economic growth or a decline in living standards within Africa. And while in different places both circumstances are probably true, neither scenario describes what I have seen in rural Tanzanian villages since 1984. Despite the predictions about the effects of structural adjustment, my impression is that life goes on with only marginal changes in the daily economic acti…
Schooling, Identity, and Nationhood
Modern Karen education began in the early 1800s when introduced by British and American missionaries at roughly the time the British colonial powers arrived from India. After independence from Great Britain in 1948, Burma faced revolt from ethnic groups including the Karen, in large part, over issues of language and cultural self-rule. This led to the forcible closing of Karen-language schools by the military junta beginning in the 1960s and the …
Towards a Theory of Ethnic Identity and Migration
This article explores the determinants for the maintenance of ethnic identity by comparing six groups of migrant Germans. The groups are eighteenth century German peasants migrating to Volga Russia, thirteenth century migrants to Latvia, seventeenth century bureaucrats and traders migrating to Moscow/St. Petersburg, eighteenth century peasant migrants to Pennsylvania, nineteenth century Hutterite migrants to the North American Midwest, and eighte…
Towards a Theory of Ethnic Identity and Migration
Tony Waters, Towards a Theory of Ethnic Identity and Migration: The Formation of Ethnic Enclaves by Migrant Germans in Russia and North America, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 515-544
Tutsi Social Identity in Contemporary Africa
The literature pointing out that ethnic groups are a social construction has a particular salience in discussion of identity in both East and Central Africa. As numerous authors have noted, there are in fact few linguistic, phenotypical, or social differences between Hutu and Tutsi. Indeed, as all acknowledge, there has been substantial intermarriage, particularly in Rwanda. Nevertheless, as recent events in Rwanda and Burundi illustrate, the pre…
Cross-National Attunement to Popular Songs across Time and Place
This paper explores empirically Edward T. Hall's assertion about the role of musical elements, including rhythm recognition and what are called "ear worms" in popular culture. To test Hall's assertion, data were collected from the United States, Germany, Tanzania, and Thailand in 2015-2017 using a 26 brief "song intros." Data were also collected from exchange students from South Korea and Turkey. Survey responses were analyzed using factor analys…
A Cultural Analysis of the Economy of Affection and the Uncaptured Peasantry in Tanzania
Is the 'economy of affection', as suggested by Goran Hyden, the key factor determining social relations in East Africa and elsewhere? According to this thesis, both villagers and city-dwellers are tied together in webs of kinship and tribal obligation that mitigate against the accumulation of wealth or capital necessary for the formation of either industrial modes of production or class-based societies. Hyden claims that the high values placed on…
Lifeworld and System
I simply take it for granted that other men also exist in this my world, and indeed not only in a bodily manner like and among other objects, but rather as endowed with a consciousness that is essentially the same as mine...[and that] in the natural attitude of everyday life the following is taken for granted without question: (a) the corporeal existence of other men; (b) that these bodies are endowed with consciousness essentially similar to my …
The Parameters of Refugeeism and Flight
The circumstances of the flight of four ethnic groups from Laos are described and cornpared. It is found that different ethnic groups defined the fall of the Laotian government in 1975 differently. This affected why, how and when they fled. It is stressed that any explanation of refugee behavior must be in terms not only of individual motivation but also of group behavior. Conclusions are drawn about the role that social networks, sanctuary oppor…
Some Practical Notes on a Names Taboo in Western Tanzania
A comparative analysis of water provision in Jour Thai refugee camps
A comparative analysis of water provision in Jour Thai refugee camps
Practical Problems associated with Refugee Protection in Western Tanzania
Some Practical Notes on a Names Taboo in Western Tanzania
The Parameters of Refugeeism and Flight
The circumstances of the flight of four ethnic groups from Laos are described and cornpared. It is found that different ethnic groups defined the fall of the Laotian government in 1975 differently. This affected why, how and when they fled. It is stressed that any explanation of refugee behavior must be in terms not only of individual motivation but also of group behavior. Conclusions are drawn about the role that social networks, sanctuary oppor…
A Cultural Analysis of the Economy of Affection and the Uncaptured Peasantry in Tanzania
Is the 'economy of affection', as suggested by Goran Hyden, the key factor determining social relations in East Africa and elsewhere? According to this thesis, both villagers and city-dwellers are tied together in webs of kinship and tribal obligation that mitigate against the accumulation of wealth or capital necessary for the formation of either industrial modes of production or class-based societies. Hyden claims that the high values placed on…
Lifeworld and System
I simply take it for granted that other men also exist in this my world, and indeed not only in a bodily manner like and among other objects, but rather as endowed with a consciousness that is essentially the same as mine...[and that] in the natural attitude of everyday life the following is taken for granted without question: (a) the corporeal existence of other men; (b) that these bodies are endowed with consciousness essentially similar to my …
Towards a Theory of Ethnic Identity and Migration
This article explores the determinants for the maintenance of ethnic identity by comparing six groups of migrant Germans. The groups are eighteenth century German peasants migrating to Volga Russia, thirteenth century migrants to Latvia, seventeenth century bureaucrats and traders migrating to Moscow/St. Petersburg, eighteenth century peasant migrants to Pennsylvania, nineteenth century Hutterite migrants to the North American Midwest, and eighte…
Towards a Theory of Ethnic Identity and Migration
Tony Waters, Towards a Theory of Ethnic Identity and Migration: The Formation of Ethnic Enclaves by Migrant Germans in Russia and North America, The International Migration Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Summer, 1995), pp. 515-544
Tutsi Social Identity in Contemporary Africa
The literature pointing out that ethnic groups are a social construction has a particular salience in discussion of identity in both East and Central Africa. As numerous authors have noted, there are in fact few linguistic, phenotypical, or social differences between Hutu and Tutsi. Indeed, as all acknowledge, there has been substantial intermarriage, particularly in Rwanda. Nevertheless, as recent events in Rwanda and Burundi illustrate, the pre…
Beyond Structural Adjustment
Depending on who you listen to, structural adjustment has led to either rapid economic growth or a decline in living standards within Africa. And while in different places both circumstances are probably true, neither scenario describes what I have seen in rural Tanzanian villages since 1984. Despite the predictions about the effects of structural adjustment, my impression is that life goes on with only marginal changes in the daily economic acti…
Assessing the Impact of the Rwandan Refugee Crisis on Development Planning in Rural Tanzania, 1994-1996
It is generally recognized that refugee movements are related to development policy in the worlds poorest countries. In particular solutions to refugee crises are regarded as rooted in the re-integration of refugees voluntarily into their own societies or that of a host country. For these reasons efforts at refugee resettlement and integration became closely tied to development assistance programs in the 1980s. However this situation changed with…
The Persistence of Subsistence and the Limits to Development Studies
There are two general approaches to assessing what is known as 'development'. First, there are classical accounts focusing on Europe's development during the industrial revolution. They describe how urban areas expanded at the expense of the social and economic resources of the rural areas, disrupting an independent subsistence peasantry. A major consequence is that today all Europeans are dependent socially, politically, and economically on the …
Crime and Immigrant Youth
Rejoinder to Howard Adelman's Review of Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan
Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan
Bureaucratizing the Good Samaritan is about the organization of refugee relief programs. It describes the practical, political, and moral assumptions of the international refugee relief regime. Tony Waters emphasizes that the agencies delivering humanitarian relief are embedded in rationalized bureaucracies whose values are determined by their institutional frameworks. The demand for victims is observed in the close relation between the interests…
Last Refuge
Purple Haze
Who Stole Culture From Anthropology
The Sacred and the Profane in American History Curriculum
The question of why students think there are two kinds of American history taught—one in the K—12 system and one in the university system—can be examined critically using Emile Durkheim's (1973) description of the sacred and the profane. The history taught in K—12 classrooms often focuses on idealized accounts of the past that protect the status quo. K—12 history emphasizes the underlying values that Durkheim calls the sacred, which are reproduce…
The new Zeppelin University translation of Weber's 'Class, Status, Party
Saigon's Edge
Max Weber’s Writing as a Product of World War I Europe
Max Weber’s academic writings about the nature of politics, government, bureaucracy, and social structure are, we believe, timeless. But his explicitly political writing directed toward aiding the German war effort of 1914–1918 is bombastic and at times whiny: it was directed at the emotions of his day and is not so timeless, which perhaps explains why little of it has been translated into English. Nevertheless, to understand the timelessness of …
The Distribution of Power Within the Gemeinschaft
This essay is about the roles honor, prestige, and Stand play in the organization of society. Weber wrote that prestige and the accompanying justification of Stand underpins how people organize themselves using the visible markers of rank. In the modern world, though, this can be understood only in the context of the social stratification of social class, as spread by the anonymous actions of the marketplaces. This results in an irony in the mode…
Max Weber’s Sociology in the Twenty-first Century
Max Weber’s contributions to the social sciences remain at the heart of how we speak about ethics, status, ethnicity, class, bureaucracy, and politics. His definition of the state as being “the legitimated monopoly over the use of coercive force in a given territory” is a staple of journalists and social scientists alike. Weber is also credited with highlighting concepts such as “iron cage,” “bureaucracy,” “bureaucratization,” “rationalization,” …
Translation Notes—Special Highlighted Terms in Weber’s Sociological Writings
Every translation requires adjustments, and this is true here as well. German is a language ideally suited to philosophical discourse. Definitions are well known, precise, and understood—by German speakers. This is the case with English, too, but not to the same extent or with the same emphases, which is why we keep words such as Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft in German in our translation. These keywords were added by machine and not by the author…
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