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Old Society, New Society

2023
Chapter four evaluates social change in revolutionary Egypt along three class lines: peasants and workers, or lower-class Egyptians, the middle-class, and upper-class Egyptians. It investigates pre- and postrevolutionary transitions among these social classes and throughout the period 1952–1970.
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Initiation Society, Learned Society and Knowledge Society

Diogenes, 2003
AbstractKnowledge is a social institution, a social activity, as well as the product of that social activity. All known societies incorporate several modes of hierarchical knowledge. Three styles of knowledge co-exist in the transitional societies of the third world in general and of contemporary Africa in particular (even though in each of the latter,
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Civil Society, Information Society, Islamic Society

1998
The concept of civil society, as a intellectual framework for describing development in modern European and other industrial societies, has been the dominant discourse in philosophical and sociological thought from the 19th century onwards (Keane 1988a and 1988b).
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Modern societies as knowledge societies

2001
New social realities require a new perspective. In advanced societies, the capacity of the individual to say no has increased considerably. At the same time, the ability of the large social institutions that have significantly shaped the nature of the twentieth century to get things done has diminished in the past couple of decades.
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Unequal Societies. [PDF]

open access: possible, 1996
This paper aims to explain the significant variations in the social contracts which can be observed across nations. It shows in particular how countries with similar technologies and preferences, as well as equally democratic political systems, can sustain very different avrage and marginal tax rates.
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INFORMATION SOCIETY, KNOWLEDGE SOCIETY

eLearning and Software for Education, 2019
In the decades of the seventeenth and 20th century, the predominant phrase was Computer Science, with ideas and trends that targeted an informational society. Gradually the concept of Information Society has gained ground and has become a reality since the explosion of the Internet, the main vector of this society.
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Screen Society

2018
Screens have been with us since the eighteenth century, though we became accustomed to staring at them only after the appearance of film and television in the twentieth century. But there was nothing in film or TV that prepared us for the revolution wrought by the combination of screens and the internet.
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