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Author : Rollin Kent Serna
Release : 2009
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Book Synopsis Reseña de "Modernity as Experience and Interpretation: A New Sociology of Modernity" de Peter Wagner by : Rollin Kent Serna
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Author : Peter Wagner
Release : 2013-04-18
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Modernity as Experience and Interpretation by : Peter Wagner
Download or read book Modernity as Experience and Interpretation written by Peter Wagner. This book was released on 2013-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis. Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to order life in common; how to satisfy human needs; how to establish knowledge. Sociology long assumed that the answers had been found once and for all: a liberal-democratic state, a market economy, and free scientific institutions. This trinity used to be called ‘modern society’. By contrast, this book is based on the idea that, under conditions of modernity, there are no stable and certain answers to these questions. There is a plurality of possible answers, every proposed answer can be criticized and contested, and every society needs to find its answer on its own. This new sociology of modernity proposes two key instruments through which to understand the answers given to those questions: the experiences human beings have of their own modernity and the interpretations they give to those experiences. It reviews the history of ‘Western’ modernity in this light and then focuses on the specific answers that were and are being developed in Europe.
Author : Peter Wagner
Release : 2013-04-18
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Modernity by : Peter Wagner
Download or read book Modernity written by Peter Wagner. This book was released on 2013-04-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the questions that Peter Wagner sets out to answer in this concise and accessible book. Wagner begins by returning to the question of modernity's Western origins and its claims to open up a new and better era in the history of humanity. Modernity's claims and expectations have become more prevalent and widely shared, but in the course of their realization and diffusion they have also been radically transformed. In an acute and engaging analysis, Wagner examines the following key issues among others: - Modernity was based on the hope for freedom and reason, but it created the institutions of contemporary capitalism and democracy. How does the freedom of the citizen relate to the freedom of the buyer and seller today? And what does disaffection with capitalism and democracy entail for the sustainability of modernity? - Rather than a single model of modernity, there is now a plurality of forms of modern socio-political organisation. What does this entail for our idea of progress and our hope that the future world can be better than the present one? - All nuance and broadening notwithstanding, our concept of modernity is in some way inextricably tied to the history of Europe and the West. How can we compare different forms of modernity in a 'symmetric', non-biased or non-Eurocentric way? How can we develop a world-sociology of modernity?
Author : Gerard Delanty
Release : 2011-03-23
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory by : Gerard Delanty
Download or read book Routledge International Handbook of Contemporary Social and Political Theory written by Gerard Delanty. This book was released on 2011-03-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook will address a range of issues that have emerged out of recent social and political theory. It will focus on key themes as opposed to schools of thought or major theorists. Each chapter is an emerging, cutting edge topic that is of interest both to social theory and to political theory. Most topics will have a clear and substantive focus on social or political problems.
Author : Peter Wagner
Release : 2015-03-09
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity by : Peter Wagner
Download or read book African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity written by Peter Wagner. This book was released on 2015-03-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African, American and European Trajectories of Modernity asks why, from some moment onwards, 'Europe' and 'the rest of the world' entered into a particular relationship: one of domination, conceived as a kind of superiority and as an 'advance' in historic
