caa a22 4500 445822465 CHVBK 20180317145248.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110501xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11186-011-9140-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11186-011-9140-x Culture in the transitions to modernity: seven pillars of a new research agenda [Elektronische Daten] [Isaac Reed, Julia Adams] How did cultural dynamics help bring about the societies we now recognize as modern? This article constructs seven distinct models for how structures of signification and social meaning participated in the transitions to modernity in the West and, in some of the models, across the globe. Our models address: (1) the spread, via imitation, of modern institutions around the world (memetic replication); (2) the construal, by socio-cultural forces and by state organizations, of the modern citizen-subject (social subjectification); (3) the continual search for new meanings to replace traditional religious meaning-systems (compensatory reenchantment); (4) repeated attempts, in modern revolutions, to remake society completely, according to a utopian vision (ideological totalization); (5) the cultural origins and social consequences of scientific and humanistic worldviews (epistemic rift); (6) the gendered politics of state formation (patriarchal supercession); (7) the invention and production of race in the colonial encounter (racial recognition). We explicate the models in reverse chronological order, because in our synthesis, we argue that the original modern break results from a dynamic combination of racial recognition, patriarchal supercession, and epistemic rift; these changes set the stage for the four other processes we theorize. In addition to our synthesis, we also consider, from a more neutral perspective, the kinds of causal arguments upon which these models tend to rely, and thus explicate the analytical undergirding for the application of any of these models to empirical research on transitions to modernity. Throughout the article, we consider how these models might, and might not, mesh with other families of explanation, such as the politico-economic. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 Theory nationallicence Race nationallicence Colonialism nationallicence State-making nationallicence Gender nationallicence Culture nationallicence Reed Isaac Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, UCB 327, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA aut Adams Julia Department of Sociology, Yale University, P.O. Box208265, 06520, New Haven, CT, USA aut Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/3(2011-05-01), 247-272 0304-2421 40:3<247 2011 40 11186 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9140-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-011-9140-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Reed Isaac Department of Sociology, University of Colorado, UCB 327, 80309, Boulder, CO, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Adams Julia Department of Sociology, Yale University, P.O. Box208265, 06520, New Haven, CT, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theory and Society Springer Netherlands 40/3(2011-05-01), 247-272 0304-2421 40:3<247 2011 40 11186 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer