Joshua J. Yates
Joshua J. Yates is a Research Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Director of the Program on Culture, Capitalism, and Global Change at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Professor Yates is a sociologist specializing in the study of culture and cultural change in the late modern world, with an emphasis on moral and ethical life.
His work thus far has concentrated on two overlapping questions: (1) How is globalization changing, challenging, and complicating our inherited moral outlooks and ethical practices? and (2) What does it mean and take to thrive in a globalizing world?
The first question examines the development, institutionalization, and diffusion of a rudimentary global cultural order based in an array of international governmental and non-governmental organizations and activist movements, while the second concentrates on the ways this global cultural order defines, seeks to secure, measures, and evaluates human thriving?
He has written on the cultural imperatives of humanitarian and human rights organizations, on the rise of the anti-globalization protest movement, on the ways modern institutions contend with disaster and catastrophe, and, most recently, on the cultural significance of sustainability as a leading paradigm of social, political, and ethical action.
He is currently working on a book project on the moral and ethical dimensions of contemporary globalization, entitled: The Problem of ‘the Good’ World: Global Culture and Our Changing Moral Imaginaries. Yates is also part of the “The Thriving Cities Project,” a multi-year, interdisciplinary initiative to create a new form of community assessment based on a holistic understanding of “thriving” in 21st century cities.
Joshua Yates, Research Assistant Professor of Sociology, Director of the Program on Culture, Capitalism, and Global Change, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, Culture, Capitalism, and Global Change, University of Virginia, global sustainability, global sustainability minor, global sustainability major, Global Sustainability Initiative, Global Sustainability Initiative at the University of Virginia
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JOSHUA J. YATES
Research Assistant Professor of Sociology, Director of the Program on Culture, Capitalism, and Global Change at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
Department: Institute for Advanced
Studies in Culture
Topic: Culture, Capitalism, and
Global Change
Phone: (434) 243-5510
Joshua J. Yates is a Research Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia and Director of the Program on Culture, Capitalism, and Global Change at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. Professor Yates is a sociologist specializing in the study of culture and cultural change in the late modern world, with an emphasis on moral and ethical life.
His work thus far has concentrated on two overlapping questions: (1) How is globalization changing, challenging, and complicating our inherited moral outlooks and ethical practices? and (2) What does it mean and take to thrive in a globalizing world?
The first question examines the development, institutionalization, and diffusion of a rudimentary global cultural order based in an array of international governmental and non-governmental organizations and activist movements, while the second concentrates on the ways this global cultural order defines, seeks to secure, measures, and evaluates human thriving?
He has written on the cultural imperatives of humanitarian and human rights organizations, on the rise of the anti-globalization protest movement, on the ways modern institutions contend with disaster and catastrophe, and, most recently, on the cultural significance of sustainability as a leading paradigm of social, political, and ethical action.
He is currently working on a book project on the moral and ethical dimensions of contemporary globalization, entitled: The Problem of ‘the Good’ World: Global Culture and Our Changing Moral Imaginaries. Yates is also part of the “The Thriving Cities Project,” a multi-year, interdisciplinary initiative to create a new form of community assessment based on a holistic understanding of “thriving” in 21st century cities.
Website: http://www.iasc-culture.org/people_faculty.php?ID=25
