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Civilizational Turn in the Contemporary Sociology: the Contribution of S. N. Eisenstadt
 
PIIS013216250028309-2-1
DOI10.31857/S013216250028309-2
Publication type Article
Status Published
Authors
Ruslan G. Braslavskiy 
Occupation: Deputy Director for Science, Sociological Institute of FCTAS RAS
Affiliation: Sociological Institute of FCTAS RAS
Address: Russian Federation, St. Petersburg
Vladimir V. Коzlovskiy
Occupation: Director, Sociological Institute of FCTAS RAS; Prof., St. Petersburg State University
Affiliation:
Sociological Institute of FCTAS RAS
St. Petersburg State University
Address: Russian Federation, St.-Petersburg
Journal nameSotsiologicheskie issledovaniya
EditionIssue 10
Pages116-125
Abstract

The article highlights the contribution of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt (1923-2010) to the elaboration of key sociological ideas in civilizational analysis. The appeal to the civilizational approach in contemporary sociology is caused by theoretical and methodological deficit in understanding multiple national, regional, local and global sociocultural configurations of dynamic modernity. The sociological tradition of civilizational analysis is represented by M. Weber, E. Durkheim, M. Mauss, P.A. Sorokin, N. Elias, B. Nelson, E. Tiryakian, S. Arjomand, J. Arnason and other scholars. Among them, a most significant figures who played key role in turning contemporary sociology towards civilizational analysis is S.N. Eisenstadt. His concepts of “civilizational dimension of societies”, “axial civilizations”, “multiple modernities”, “civilization of modernity” set the agenda of contemporary civilizational analysis.

Keywordscivilizational analysis, sociology, Axial Age, multiple modernities, civilization, modernity, S.N. Eisenstadt
AcknowledgmentThe research was funded by the Russian Science Foundation grant No. 23-18-01067.
Publication date25.12.2023
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