Uneasy companions: language and human collectivities in the remaking of Chinese society in the early twentieth centurySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 49 - Trang 75-100 - 2020
Jeffrey Weng
How we think national standard languages came to dominate the world depends on how we conceptualize the way languages are linked to the people that use them. Weberian theory posits the arbitrariness and constructedness of a community based on language. People who speak the same language do not necessarily think of themselves as a community, and so such a community is an intentional, political, and...... hiện toàn bộ
Book reviewsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 15 - Trang 915-925 - 1986
William H. Sewell, William Palmer, Robert Resch
Language, ethnicity, and the nation-state: on Max Weber’s conception of “imagined linguistic community”Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 47 - Trang 437-466 - 2018
Mitsuhiro Tada
Methodological nationalism in sociological theory is unfit for the current globalized era, and should be discarded. In light of this contention, the present article discusses Max Weber’s view of language as a way to relativize the frame of the national society. While a “linguistic turn” in sociology since the 1960s has assumed that the sharing of language—linguistic community—stands as an intersub...... hiện toàn bộ
Biography as historical sociologySpringer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 20 - Trang 511-538 - 1991
Barbara Laslett
William Fielding Ogburn was located on and helped to create the “cutting edge” of developments in twentieth-century American sociology — particularly its increasing emphasis on statistics and objectivist methodology. His life, which spanned the period within which the changes he advocated were institutionalized, can be seen as having significance as a marker of a transition. From this perspective,...... hiện toàn bộ
Book reviewsSpringer Science and Business Media LLC - - 2006
Karen Lucas