Brian Heaphy

Late Modernity and Social Change

Reconstructing Social and Personal Life

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Produktbeschreibung

In this incisive text, Heaphy introduces the work of Giddens, Bauman, Foucault and Baudrillard to show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real-life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 458g
• ISBN-13: 9780415281768
• ISBN-10: 0415281768
• Artikelnr.: 21502789

Autorenporträt

Brian Heaphy is Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester University. His sociological interests include theories of social and cultural change and changing patterns of personal life.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Founding Narratives of Modernity and the Logics of
Social Change 3. The Deconstructive Turn 4. Postmodernity and the Cultural
Turn 5. Late Modernity and the Reflexive Turn 6. Reconstructing Self and
Identity 7. Reflexive Relating and Intimacy 8. Death, Deskilling and
Life-Politics 9. The Sociology of Reflexivity or Reflexive Sociology?