Publications [#223993] of Edward A. Tiryakian

Papers Published

1. Edward A. Tiryakian, Civilization in the Global Era: One, Many... or None?, in Social Theory and Regional Studies in the Global Age, Pangaea II:Global/Local Series, edited by Said Amir Arjomand (Spring, 2014), pp. 91-112, SUNY Press, State University of New York Press, Albany NY, ISBN 978-1-4384-5159-6
   (last updated on 2014/07/01)

   Abstract:
   As a sociological topic, the analysis of civilizations spans three generations.The first is the classical period of the later 19th century up to World War I. The second period covers the interwar period, with contributions from Marcel Mauss and Pitirim Sorokin. The third may be dated from the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Empire to the later 1990s and attempts at formulating a "new world Order".In the current phase, civilizational analysis has been linked with globalization as a dynamic transnational process,with the direction no longer being defined by "the West", but by "multiple modernities" (Eisenstadt). In the present condition of modernity, it is too soon to view our situation as evolving into a set of overlapping civilizations, or a single transformative civilization, or, if due to some man-made earthly disaster,a breakdown of civilization (leading to some new "Dark Ages").