Sociology of Modernity
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Civic Reaction
Civil Society
Classical European Sociology
cognitive representation crisis
configuration
Contemporary Society
Dense
Empirical Social Research
Entire Social Formation
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Good Life
historical social transformation
Human Beings
Ideal
imaginary
Imaginary Signification
Import Penetration Rates
liberal
Major Societal Transformation
Material Allocation
Modern Ambiguity
modernity and individual autonomy
organize
Organized Modernity
pluralisation of institutions
political community theory
practice
practices
signification
social
social identity formation
Unconventional Political Action
Unlimited
Vice Versa
Violate
War Time
West Germany
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- ISBN 9780415081863
- Weight: 530g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 11 Nov 1993
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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First Published in 2004. Confusion reigns in sociological accounts of the curent condition of modernity. The story-lines from the 'end of the subject' to 'a new individualism', from the 'dissolution of society' to the re-emergence of 'civil society', from the 'end of modernity' to an 'other modernoity' to 'neo-modernization'. This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of a historical account of social transformations over the past two centuries, focusing on Western Europe but also looking at the USA and at Soviet socialism as distinct variants of modernity. A fundamental ambivalence of modernity is captured by the double notion of liberty and discipline in its three major dimensions: the relations between individual liberty and political community , betwen agency and structure, and between locally situated human lives and widely extended social institutions. Two major historical transformations of modernity are distinguished, the first one beginning in the late nineteenth century and leading to a social formation that can be called organized modernity, and the second being the one that dissolves organized modernity. It is this current transformation which revives some key concerns of the 'modern project', ideas of liberty, plurality and individual autonomy. But it imperils others, especially the creation of social identities as ties between human beings that allow meaningful and socially viable development of individual autonomy, and the possibility of politics as communicative interaction and collaborative deliberation about what human beings have in common.
Peter Wagner (Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute University of Trento, Italy)
