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Author : John Allen
Release : 1992
Genre : Social structure
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Book Rating : 614/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding modern societies : an introduction. 2. The political and economic forms of modernity by : John Allen
Download or read book Understanding modern societies : an introduction. 2. The political and economic forms of modernity written by John Allen. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Allen
Release : 1992
Genre : Social structure
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 621/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Understanding modern societies : an introduction. 2. The political and economic forms of modernity by : John Allen
Download or read book Understanding modern societies : an introduction. 2. The political and economic forms of modernity written by John Allen. This book was released on 1992. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bram Gieben
Release : 1993-01-04
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 607/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Formations of Modernity by : Bram Gieben
Download or read book The Formations of Modernity written by Bram Gieben. This book was released on 1993-01-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This challenging and innovative book 'maps' the evolution of those distinctive forms of political, economic, social and cultural life which characterize modern societies, from their origins in early modern Europe to the nineteenth century. It examines the roots of modern knowledge and the birth of the social sciences in the Enlightenment, and analyses the impact on the emerging identity of 'the West' of its encounters through exploration, trade, conquest and colonization, with 'other civilizations'. Designed as an introduction to modern societies and modern sociological analyses, this book is of value to students on a wide variety of social science courses in universities and colleges and also to readers with no prior knowledge of sociology. Selected readings from a broad range of classical writers (Weber, Durkheim, Marx, Freud, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and contemporary thinkers (Michael Mann, E.P. Thompson, Edward Said) are integrated in each chapter, together with student questions and exercises.
Author : Andreas Reckwitz
Release : 2021-06-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 719/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The End of Illusions by : Andreas Reckwitz
Download or read book The End of Illusions written by Andreas Reckwitz. This book was released on 2021-06-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a time of great uncertainty about the future. Those heady days of the late twentieth century, when the end of the Cold War seemed to be ushering in a new and more optimistic age, now seem like a distant memory. During the last couple of decades, we’ve been battered by one crisis after another and the idea that humanity is on a progressive path to a better future seems like an illusion. It is only now that we can see clearly the real scope and structure of the profound shifts that Western societies have undergone over the last 30 years. Classical industrial society has been transformed into a late-modern society that is molded by polarization and paradoxes. The pervasive singularization of the social, the orientation toward the unique and exceptional, generates systematic asymmetries and disparities, and hence progress and unease go hand in hand. Reckwitz examines this dual structure of singularization and polarization as it plays itself out in the different sectors of our societies and, in so doing, he outlines the central structural features of the present: the new class society, the characteristics of a postindustrial economy, the conflict about culture and identity, the exhaustion of the self resulting from the imperative to seek authentic fulfillment, and the political crisis of liberalism. Building on his path-breaking work The Society of Singularities, this new book will be of great interest to students and scholars in sociology, politics, and the social sciences generally, and to anyone concerned with the great social and political issues of our time.
Author : Julia Adams
Release : 2005-02
Genre : Social Science
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Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Remaking Modernity by : Julia Adams
Download or read book Remaking Modernity written by Julia Adams. This book was released on 2005-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA sociology collection reviewing the state-of-historical-study in a wide range of areas while showcasing the use of poststructuralist approaches to studying family, gender, war, protest & revolution, state-making, social provisions, colonialism, trans/div
