ISBN:
0203418573
,
9780203418574
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0585452679
,
9780585452678
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xv, 267 pages)
Parallel Title:
Print version Sociology of modernity
DDC:
301/.01
Keywords:
Sociology Philosophy
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Modernité
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Sociologie
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Sociologie historique
;
Sociologie politique
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Contrôle social
;
Institutions sociales
;
Institutions politiques
;
Liberté
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Discipline
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Sociology Philosophy
;
Sociology Philosophy
;
Moderniteit
;
Sociale verandering
;
Sociology ; Philosophy
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Regional Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; General
;
Modernität
;
Soziologie
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Electronic books
Abstract:
A Sociology of Modernity offers a historical account of social transformation over the past two centuries - focusing on Western Europe, but also looking at the USA and Society Socialism as distinct varieties of modernity
Abstract:
Chapter 1 Modes of narrating modernity -- chapter 2 Enablement and constraint: Understanding modern institutions -- chapter 3 Restricted liberal modernity: The incomplete elaboration of the modern project -- chapter 4 Crisis and transformation of modernity: The end of the liberal utopia -- chapter 5 Networks of power and barriers to entry: The organization of allocative practices -- chapter 6 Building iron cages: The organization of authoritative practices -- chapter 7 Discourses on society: Reorganizing the mode of cognitive representation -- chapter 8 Pluralization of practices: The crisis of organized modernity -- chapter 9 Sociology and contingency: The crisis of the organized mode of representation -- chapter 10 Modernity and self-identity: Liberation and disembedding -- chapter 11 Incoherent practices and postmodern selves: The current condition of modernity.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-260) and index. - Print version record
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