Comparative Social Dynamics

Preface -- S. N. Eisenstadt: Some Personal Observations -- Process and Change in Tribal and Historical Societies -- A Generation After "From Generation to Generation": Coevals and Competitors in "Cattle Complex" Societies -- The Ecological Dynamics of Empires: Seventeenth-Century Crises in Ottoman Turkey and Ming China -- Tradition and Transformation in India and China: A Total-Society Approach -- Two Types of Spatial Boundaries -- The Sources of Charismatic Leadership: Max Weber Revisited -- Sociocultural Change in Thailand: A Reconceptualization -- Sociopolitical Roles of Muslim Clerics and Scholars in West Africa -- Imperial Breakdown: S. N. Eisenstadt's Work and the Spanish-American Case -- A Critical Commentary on Tocqueville's Prophecies: Bureaucratization and Its Evolution in French Administration -- Modernization -- The Changing Centers of Modernity -- Institutionalized Inequalities, the Structure of Trust, and Clientelism in Modern Latin America -- Interpreting Traditions in a Developmental Planning Context: A Malawian Case Study -- Internal Migration: Determinants and Policies -- Exitâ"The Gains and Losses of International Migration -- Sociology of Science -- Puritanism and Modern Science: A Study in the Continuity and Coherence of Sociological Research -- Borrowing the Concept of Energy in Freudian Psychoanalysis -- Israeli Society -- Strategies of Class Formation: The Case of the Labor Movement in the Jewish Community of Palestine, 1918â"1948 -- Between the Primordial and the Civil Definitions of the Collective Identity: Eretz Israel or the State of Israel? -- Urban Patronage in Israel -- Theories of Participatory Democracy and the Kibbutz -- Integration in Army and Nation: An Essay in Institutional Permeability -- Sociological and Anthropological Theory -- "Institutionalization" and "Collective Behavior": Points of Contact Between Eisenstadt's Functionalism and Symbolic Interactionism -- Charisma, Liminality, and Symbolic Types -- Genes and Culture: Thoughts on Methodology and Biological Analogies in Social Theory -- Tractatus Sociologico-Philosophicus -- Other Titles of Interest from Westview Press