ISBN:
9780415281768
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (364 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Late Modernity and Social Change : Reconstructing Social and Personal Life
DDC:
303.401
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
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
Description / Table of Contents:
CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 1 INTRODUCTION; The argument; Directions; Chapters 2 to 5; Chapters 6 to 9; 2 FOUNDING NARRATIVES OF MODERNITY AND THE LOGICS OF SOCIAL CHANGE; Introduction; Narrating the modern, envisioning the social; Capitalistic modernity; Industrial modernity; Rationalistic modernity; Modern fragments; Civilized modernity; Conclusion: constructing modernity and the sociological project; 3 THE DECONSTRUCTIVE TURN; Introduction; Critical theory; Poststructuralism and the logics of disintegration; Modernity, order and governance; Critiquing poststructuralism
Description / Table of Contents:
Other deconstructionsRadical difference; Poststructuralism, radical difference and sociology; Reflexive methodology and sociological practice; Conclusion; 4 POSTMODERNITY AND THE CULTURAL TURN; Introduction; The postmodern turn; A postmodern paradigm?; Postmodern distinctions: the cultural and the social; Postmodern differences; Radical postmodernism; Postmodernity and sociological strategy; Reintegrating the social; Conclusion; 5 LATE MODERNITY AND THE REFLEXIVE TURN; Introduction; Rethinking postmodernity; Reframing modernity; Late modernity; Risk society; Reflexive modernity
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Globalization and individualizationLife-politics and personal life; Conclusion: the sociological project of reflexivity; 6 RECONSTRUCTING SELF AND IDENTITY; Introduction; The project of self-identity; Self-monitoring and existential questions; Self-identity, reflexivity and empowerment; The difference within: self and psychic structure; Psychic structures and repression; Gendered subjectivities and patriarchal structures; The decentred self; Inscribing selfhood: discipline and power; Disciplined subjects; Discipline/reflexivity; Consuming postmodern identities; Do-it-yourself identities
Description / Table of Contents:
Self-reflexivity and resourcesConclusion; 7 REFLEXIVE RELATING AND INTIMACY; Introduction; Transforming intimacy; Plastic sexuality, the pure relationship and confluent love; Intimate battles: biographies, relationships and work; Order and uncertainty; Critics of intimacy; Power, sexuality and gender; Sexuality and power; Sexuality, gender and power; Demanding reflexivity: gender, work and intimacy; Rationalization and gendered reflexivity; Reflexive working, sexuality and emotion; Reflexive gender in intimate relationships; Conclusion; 8 DEATH, DESKILLING AND LIFE-POLITICS; Introduction
Description / Table of Contents:
Modernity, death and deskillingLate modernity, death and the self; Death as a problem in late modernity; Resources for living; Life-politics and non-emancipated experience; Death and reconstructivist sociology; Conclusion; 9 THE SOCIOLOGY OF REFLEXIVITY OR REFLEXIVE SOCIOLOGY?; Introduction; Situating reconstructivist theories of modernity; Modernity and the social: constructions, deconstructions and reconstructions; Reconstructing sociology: the sociology of reflexivity; Reflexivity, social change and personal life; Reflexive sociology: where difference and power matter
Description / Table of Contents:
Can the sociology of reflexivity be reflexive sociology?
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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