Cosmopolitan sociology and the classical canon: Ferdinand Tönnies and the emergence of global Gesellschaft.

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Summary

It is argued that certain classical sociologists were attuned to the emerging cosmopolitical conditions of their own time, were not wholly wedded to nation-state-based conceptualizations, and thus can function as both groundings of, and inspirations for, cosmopolitan sociological endeavours.

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2009-12-01
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Sociology, Sociological theory, Epistemology, State (computer science), Cosmopolitanism

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