Modernity as Experience and Interpretation
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…
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- ISBN: 978-0-7456-4218-5
- EAN: 9780745642185
- Produktnummer: 3732701
- Verlag: Wiley
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 296 S.
- Masse: H23.7 cm x B16.2 cm x D2.9 cm 588 g
- Gewicht: 588
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Peter Wagner, Professor of Social and Political Theory, European University Institute
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