Martin O'Brien, Sue Penna (Lecturer in Applied Social S, Colin Hay

Theorising Modernity

Reflexivity, Environment & Identity in Giddens' Social Theory

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Produktbeschreibung

What is modernity? Do we all experience modernity in the same way? How should we understand contemporary social change? This volume explores questions of modernity through critical engagements with the work of Anthony Giddens, focusing in particular on the relationships between his social theory and political sociology. Three substantive areas - reflexivity, environment and identity - are examined theoretically through the relationships between reflexivity and rationality life politics and institutional power, and universalism and 'difference'. Theorising Modernity will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students of sociology, modern political thought, social geography and social policy and to social scientists trying to make sense of the modernity debate.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• 582nd edition
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 322g
• ISBN-13: 9780582307438
• ISBN-10: 0582307430
• Artikelnr.: 39292817

Autorenporträt

Martin O'Brien

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements The Contributors 1. Introduction
Sue Penna, Martin O'Brien and Colin Hay 2. Theorising Modernity: Reflexivity, Identity and Environments in Giddens' Social Theory
Martin O'Brien 3. Radical Politics
Neither Left Nor Right?
Ted Benton 4. Beyond Emancipation? the reflexivity of social movements
Paul Bagguley 5. Exploring Post
Traditional Orders: Individual Reflexivity, 'Pure Relations and Duality of Structure
Nicos Mouzelis 6. Life Politics, the Environment and the Limits of Sociology
Peter Dickens 7. Criminality, Social Environments and Late Modernity
Dave Smith 8. Modernity and the Politics of Identity
Martin O'Brien and Jenny Harris 9. Theorising Identity, Difference and Social Divisions
Floya Anthios 10. A World of Differences: What if it's so? How will we know?
Charles Lemert 11. Responses and Reflections: An Interview with Anthony Giddens Bibliography Index