Power and rule, civilisations and the modern political dimension: parallelism, convergence and divergence in social evolution

IF 1 Q3 SOCIOLOGY

International Review of Sociology-Revue Internationale de Sociologie Pub Date : 2022-01-02 DOI:10.1080/03906701.2022.2028404

J. Domingues

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ABSTRACT This paper discusses power in world history and then in the political dimension of modernity, contrasting it with how power was exercised in other civilisations. It mobilises key texts on large-scale historical sociology and evolutionary theories. In order to articulate a discussion on systems of rule, hierarchy, network and market, the analytical categories of justification and legitimation are introduced. To organise and frame the historical record, avoiding the pitfalls of unilinear theories of evolution, it also resorts to the concepts of homology and homoplasy, divergence and convergence, which are common occurrences in history. This has to do with limited possibilities for social evolution. Yet modernity surged as a stunning historic-evolutionary divergence, in which a specific process of differentiation took place, including that of a particular, and hitherto unheard of, political dimension. Authoritarian collectivism tried to supersede it but failed, entailing a backtracking of social evolution.

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权力与统治、文明与现代政治维度:社会进化中的平行、趋同与分化

本文讨论了世界历史上的权力，然后讨论了现代性的政治维度，并将其与其他文明中权力的行使进行了对比。它调动了大规模历史社会学和进化理论的关键文本。为了阐明对规则、等级、网络和市场系统的讨论，引入了正当性和正当性的分析范畴。为了组织和构建历史记录，避免线性进化理论的陷阱，它还诉诸于历史上常见的同源性和同质性，分歧和收敛的概念。这与社会进化的有限可能性有关。然而，现代性是作为一种惊人的历史进化分歧而激增的，在这种分歧中，一个特定的分化过程发生了，包括一个特殊的、迄今为止闻所未闻的政治维度。威权集体主义试图取代它，但失败了，导致了社会进化的倒退。

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期刊介绍： International Review of Sociology is the oldest journal in the field of sociology, founded in 1893 by Ren Worms. Now the property of Rome University, its direction has been entrusted to the Faculty of Statistics. This choice is a deliberate one and falls into line with the traditional orientation of the journal as well as of the Institut International de Sociologie. The latter was the world"s first international academic organisation of sociology which started as an association of contributors to International Review of Sociology. Entrusting the journal to the Faculty of Statistics reinforces the view that sociology is not conceived apart from economics, history, demography, anthropology and social psychology.