Search results for: MODERNIZATION PARADIGM

• Georg Simmel’s The Philosophy of Money and the Modernization Paradigm

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  • A. Karalus

  - Polish Sociological Review - Year 2018

  This article examines Georg Simmel’s contribution to the understanding of how money functions in modern society, mainly scrutinizing his most important work on that topic, The Philosophy of Money, in the context of modernization theories. Modernization theories, as developed (most notably) by Marx, Weber, Durkheim, and Elias, attempted to explain the transition from feudalism and a closed agrarian economy to capitalism and industrial...

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• The potential of urban agriculture in the revitalisation of a metropolis

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  • G. Rembarz

  - Year 2019

  In Poland, the topic addressing urban areas of agricultural production and gardening activity is still viewed in two main blocks: 1) a shift of the urbanized zone’s boundaries, causing dispersion of suburban buildings as well as creates conflict zone between the residential area and the production and post-production zones; 2) a socially contentious issue of restructuring the inner-city complexes of former employee allotments....

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