Hans Bakker

Publications 

2010

2010a “Interpretivism.” Pp. 486-493 in Mills, Albert J., Gabrielle Durepos, and Elden Wiebe      (eds.)Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. [Two Volumes, Vol. 1.] Los Angeles, CA: Sage. [This 5,000 word essay takes up 7 ½ pages; See the shorter contributions on Epistemology, Ontology, Phenomenology and Theory, Role of, below under Ref  Refereed Encyclopedia articles below. This book will have world-wide distribution.]

2010b “Epistemology.” Pp. 331-335 in Mills, Albert J., Gabrielle Durepos, and Elden Wiebe (eds.)Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. [Two Volume, Vol. 1.] Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

2010c  “Ontology.” Pp. 628-631 in Mills, Albert J., Gabrielle Durepos, and Elden Wiebe (eds.)Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. [Two Volume, Vol. 2.] Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

2010d “Phenomenology.” Pp. 673-677 in Mills, Albert J., Gabrielle Durepos, and Elden  Wiebe (eds.)Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. [Two Volume, Vol. 2.] Los  Angeles, CA: Sage.

2010e “Theory, Role of.” Pp. 930-932 in Mills, Albert J., Gabrielle Durepos, and Elden Wiebe (eds.)Encyclopedia of Case Study Research. [Two Volume, Vol. 2.] Los Angeles, CA: Sage.

2010f Bonnano, A.; Bakker, J. I. (Hans); Kawamura, Y; Jussaime, R. and Shucksmith, M. (eds.) From Community to Consumption: New and Classical Themes in Rural Sociological Research. Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Publishing Company.

2010g   “The New Sociological Imagination, Jnana Yoga and the Web of Life: Gandhi, Grant,      Mills, Peirce” Pp. 106-138 in Baruna, Arati (ed.) Gandhi and Grant: Their Philosophical Affinities. Delhi, India: Academic Excellence Publishers.  [ ISBN: 978-93-80525-08-2]

2010h    “Deference versus Democracy in Traditional and Modern Bureaucracy: Refinements of Weber’s Ideal Type Model.” Pp. 105-128 in  Baber, Zaheer and Bryant, Joseph M. (eds.) Society, History and the Global Condition of Humanity. Lanham, Maryland:     Lexington Publishers. [This is aFestschrift for Prof. Irving Zeitlin, by his former colleagues and students. My chapter title may change.]

2009

2009a   “C. Wright Mills and Education.” Pp. 55-69 in Knottnerus, J. David and Bernard Phillips (eds.)Bureaucratic Culture and Escalating World Problems: Advancing the Sociological Imagination. Boulder, CO and London, UK: Paradigm Publishers.

2009b  “Peirce, Pragmatism and Public Sociology: Translating and Interpretation into       Practice.” Pp. 229-260 in Dahms, Harry (ed.) Nature, Knowledge and Negation..           Bingley, U.K.: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.    [Published in the series Current Perspectives in Social Theory, Volume 26.]

2009c  “The Netherlands Indies in Aceh, Bali and Buton: Degrees of Resistance and Acceptance of Indirect and Direct Rule.” Leidschrift [History at Leiden University, Leiden, the Netherlands] 24 (1): 83-103.

Critical Review Essay

1997

Synchronicity, Science, and Soul Making: Understanding Jungian Synchronicity through Physics, Buddhism and Philosophy. Chicago: Open Court Press. *Skeptic* Vol. 5, No. 1: 88-92. [This is a critical review essay,not just a brief book review.]

Book Reviews

2010

2010.   Review of Neil Gross’ Richard Rorty: The Making of an American Philosopher. In Philosophy in Review.

2010.   Review of Geoffrey Hughes’ Political Correctness: A History of Semantics and Culture InPsychCritiques  volume 55, Release 34, Article 6.

2005

“Terrorist Organizations and Agency: A Comparative-Historical Approach” To appear in Bernard Phillips, ed., The Web or Part/Whole Approach to Terrorism (Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2006)

Weber, Elias, and the Semiotics of Civility: Pre-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern Capitalism and Trust. Paper prepared for Conference on Risk, Civility and Trust, Victoria College, University of Toronto, May 5-8, 2005

2004

The Execution of Oldenbamevelt: The`Means of Coercion' (Weber) in Comparative-Historical Perspective (Part II) Michigan Sociological Review, Volume 18, Fall 2004, 191-211

"Historical Sociology and the Comparative Method: Re-examining Weber's 'Means of Coercion' as an Ideal Type Model" Paper prepared for presentation at the North Central Sociological Association (NCSA) Meetintgs in Cleveland, Ohio, April 1-3, 2004.

2003

Emotions and Reflections in Mourning Lewis Feuer. Clio's Psyche, Volume 9, Number 4. March 2003

The Weber-Rachfahl Debate: Calvinism And Capitalism In Holland? (Part One) Michigan Sociological Review, Volume 17, Fall 2003, 1119-148

Community and the Luhmann-Habermas Debate: A Neo-Weberian Ideal Type Solution Proceedings of RSS (Rural Sociological Society) Annual Meetings; Montreal, Quebec, July 27-30, 2003 (on CD)

2002

Theoretical Maturity: Ideal Type Models as well as Turner's Dream? The ASA Theory Section Newsletter: Perspectives, Vol 25, Number 3.

Community and Participation in the Creation of Sustainable Agroecosystems, Rural Sociology, Volume 67, Number 3.

Modernism & Post-Modernism in light of S & RS: Some Neglected Scholarly Contributions to Chinese, Japanese and Indian Religious Perspectives. -Comparative & Historical Sociology, Winter 02 Newsletter (www.claisc.edu)

2001

The Last Illusion. Letters From Dutch Immigrants in the 'Land of Opportunity' 1924-1930. Dutch Crossing, Volume 25, Number 1.

2000

Eric Wolfs Case Studies of Power: A Critical Review Essay, Comparative & Historical Sociology, Vol 13, Number 1.

Charles Ragins Fuzzy-Set Social Science. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 352p

1999

"Wilhelm Dilthey: Classical Sociological Theorist" Quarterly Journal of Ideology. Vol. 22, no. 1 & 2 (1999), pp. 43-82.

"Resettlement of Bajo 'Sea Nomads': Rapid Rural Appraisal of an IRD-IAD Project in Sulawesi, Indonesia," in J.I. (Hans) Bakker (ed.), IRDR, Vol. 1 (Guelph: Guelph-Wageningen IRD129-166.

"Population and Environment in Indonesia: Economic Growth Equity and Sustainability," in F.G. Cohen and J.M. Campbell (eds.), Population and Environment: An Exploration of Critical Linkages (Jakarta and Halifax: EMDI Project Environmental Report 29-32.

1995

"The Hindu-Javanese World View in Java: The Structural Roots of the Pancasila State," in J. Bernardi, G. Forth and S. Niessen. (eds.). Managing Change in Southeast Asia: Local Identities, Global Connections. Edmonton, Alberta: CCSEAS (1995). pp. 189-205.

"Patrimonialism, Involution, and the Agrarian Question in Java: a Weberian Analysis of Class Relations and Servile Labour." Pp. 279-301 in John Gledhill, B. Bender and M. T Larsen (eds.) 1995. State and Society the Emergence and development of Social Hierarchy and Political Centralization, London: Routledge.

"The Life World, Grief and Individual Uniqueness: 'Social Definition' in Dilthev, Windelband. Rickert. Weber, Simmel and Schutz," Sociologische Gids. Vol. 42, no. 3 (May-June, 1995) pp. 187-212.

"Negara and Urban Developments in Indonesia: The Need for a Comparative and Historical Study of Urban Places in the Context of the Development of Capitalism." in Dahlan. M. Alwi and G. Hainsworth. (eds.). Population Environment: Population Quality and Sustainable Settlements Halifax: Dalhousie University. in cooperation with the Ministry for Environment. Republic of Indonep.33-46.

1993

"The Aceh War and the Creation of the Netherlands East Indies State," in A. Ion, A. Hamish and E.J. Errington (eds.), Great Powers and Little Wars: The Limits of Power (New York: Praeger, 1993), pp. 53-82.

Towards A Just Civilization The Gandhian Perspective on Human Rights and Development an Scholars' Press, 1993), 144 pp.

Structural Changes in Agriculture and Rural Development: Relevance of Innis and Weber for Russian Rural Studies. Social Problems in Rural Areas under Conditions of Change Contributions to the I.nternational Symposium in Vologda, September 1991. pp. 125-154.

1992

The American Encounter with Buddhism, 1844-1912: Victorian Culture and the Limits of Dissent, by Thomas A. Tweed. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1992. Pp. 242.

1990

"The Gandhian Approach to Swadeshi or Appropriate Technology: A Conceptualization in Terms of Basic Needs and Equity." Journal of Agricultural Ethics: 50-88.

1989

Safranski, Rudriger. Schopenhauer and the Wild Years of Philosophy Tr. Ewald Osers (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1990) Religious Studies and Theology, Volume 15, Numbers 2-3..

1987

"Exorcising the Spectres: Weber's Interpretive Sociology as the Solution to Key Problems in Sociological Theory," Contributions of Classical Theory to Rural Sociology, Summer 1987.

"Canadian Political Economy and Rural Sociology: Early History of Rural Studies in Canada", The Rural Sociologist, Volume 7, Number 5 September 1987

1985

A Neglected Reformer on Java: Governor-General Sloet Van de Beele, 1861-1866, in Anita Beltran Chen (ed.), Contemporary and Historical Perspectives in Southeast Asia.

"Data Gathering and Project Design: A Third World Case Study of Community Development." Journal of the Community Development Society, 16 (2): 1-17.

1980

"The Double-Bind of the Middle Class Male: Men's Liberation and the Male Sex Role." Journal of Comparative Family Studies, 11 (4):547-61. (Calgary, Alberta); co-authored with Maureen Baker.

1978

Bureaucratization of Patrimonialism: Colonial Taxation and Land Tenure in Java, 1830-1850. In The Past in Southeast Asia's Present, G. Means (ed.), 141-56. Ottawa, Ontario: Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies.