From the Past to the Future. Summary of the First Chapter of "The World - A Beginner's Guide" from Göran Therborn - Softcover

Raß, Stefan

 
9783656769668: From the Past to the Future. Summary of the First Chapter of "The World - A Beginner's Guide" from Göran Therborn
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3656769664 ISBN 13: 9783656769668
Verlag: GRIN Publishing, 2014

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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut für Soziologie), course: The World an Introduction, language: English, abstract: This paper aims to summarize the most important aspects of Therborns first chapter "Why we are who we are: A sociocultural geology of today's World." In his book "The World - A Beginner´s Guide", Göran Therborn, a Swedish Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University, gives an outline of today's society. Through looking at the past, he tries to explain the sociocultural geology that forged the world into the vibrant, globalized interplay of politics, people and culture that we live in today. "The World" also gives a perspective of what may lay ahead of humankind's everlasting journey to a better future. This compass of the basic drives of human society, tries to paint a picture of our modern condition. From birth to after-life Therborn is set out to answer fundamental questions about mankind: Why we are who we are? Why we act the way we do?

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Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, grade: 1,3, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (Institut für Soziologie), course: The World an Introduction, language: English, comment: Hausarbeit zum Ersten Kapitel von Göran Therborns Buch The World - A Beginner´s Guide., abstract: This paper aims to summarize the most important aspects of Therborns first chapter "Why we are who we are: A sociocultural geology of today's World." In his book "The World - A Beginner´s Guide", Göran Therborn, a Swedish Professor of Sociology at Cambridge University, gives an outline of today's society. Through looking at the past, he tries to explain the sociocultural geology that forged the world into the vibrant, globalized interplay of politics, people and culture that we live in today. "The World" also gives a perspective of what may lay ahead of humankind's everlasting journey to a better future. This compass of the basic drives of human society, tries to paint a picture of our modern condition. From birth to after-life Therborn is set out to answer fundamental questions about mankind: Why we are who we are? Why we act the way we do?

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Verlag
GRIN Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3656769664
ISBN 13 
9783656769668
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Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
20
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