ISBN:
9780203418574
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (284 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version A Sociology of Modernity : Liberty and Discipline
DDC:
301/.01
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
〈I〉A Sociology of Modernity〈/I〉 offers a historical account of social transformation over the past two centuries - focusing on Western Europe, but also looking at the USA and Societ Socialism as distinct varieties of modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgements; Modes of narrating modernity; Enablement and constraint: Understanding modern institutions; Restricted liberal modernity: The incomplete elaboration of the modern project; Crisis and transformation of modernity: The end of the liberal utopia; Networks of power and barriers to entry: The organization of allocative practices; Building iron cages: The organization of authoritative practices; Discourses on society: Reorganizing the mode of cognitive representation; Pluralization of practices: The crisis of organized modernity
Description / Table of Contents:
Sociology and contingency: The crisis of the organized mode of representationModernity and self-identity: Liberation and disembedding; Incoherent practices and postmodern selves: The current condition of modernity; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
DOI:
10.4324/9780203418574
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