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Reviews three books on Japan. "Japan and its Others: Globalization, Difference and the Critique of Modernity"; "Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan"; "Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan".
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Reviews three books on Japan. "Japan and its Others: Globalization, Difference and the Critique of Modernity"; "Globalization and Social Change in Contemporary Japan"; "Foreign Migrants in Contemporary Japan".
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Johann Arnason and Shmuel Eisenstadt's social theories have remarkably different origins. Yet each has moved onto common ground with the other over a period of time. They meet in historical sociology in dialogue over theories of state formation and images of civilisation. Each is engaged in a project of revising civilisations sociology that reaches an apex with the comparative study of Japan.Their groundbreaking contributions can be read critically against a wider background of debates about postcolonialism, the reputation of the notion of civilisation and the state of area studies in the humanities and social sciences.