What inspired you to write Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought? I was invited to participate in an international conference on “Antisemitism and the Emergence of Sociological Theory” at ...

Modernity seems to produce its own specific pathologies. These pathologies are present as global catastrophes, such as global wars, climate crises, and genocides, or as more “common” and almost ...

Yeshiva University’s opposition to a pride club is out of touch with the times. So what? Are Orthodoxy and modernity incompatible in the 21st century? There are many aspects of Judaism and Orthodoxy ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Social theory has traditionally argued that the modern and the postmodern are chronologically ordered (that is, the postmodern comes after the ...

This essay deals with the transformation of modern partner relationships in the age of late modernity. The first part characterises modern partner relationships, showing that they are based on a ...

Modernity is a central concept within the social sciences. It demarcates the world in terms of time and space, separating out the modern from the non-modern, and points to associated disciplinary ...

According to Esref Altas, an associate professor at Istanbul Medeniyet University, Khaldun was a good observer who saw the outer face of historical social events. Science historians argue that the ...

W hat can sociology tell us about the humanities? Sociological understanding of the humanities began in a field first called ...