Theorizing Modernity
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Theorizing Modernity
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Author : Peter Wagner
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2001-03-20
Theorizing Modernity written by Peter Wagner and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-03-20 with Social Science categories.
This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. The book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of the key questions that sociologists tend to gloss over, inescapability and attainability. The book identifies five key questions in which issues of inescapability and attainability emerge. These are the questions of the certainty of our knowledge, the viability of our politics, the continuity of our selves, the accessibility of the past, and the transparency of the future. The book demonstrates how these questions are addressed in different forms and by different intellectua
Modernity As Experience And Interpretation
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Author : Peter Wagner
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2008-06-09
Modernity As Experience And Interpretation written by Peter Wagner and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-06-09 with History categories.
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.
Theorizing Modernity
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Author : Peter Wagner
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2001-01-22
Theorizing Modernity written by Peter Wagner and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-22 with Social Science categories.
This book argues that sociology has lost its ability to provide critical diagnoses of the present human condition because sociology has stopped considering the philosophical requirements of social enquiry. The book attempts to restore that ability by retrieving some of the key questions that sociologists tend to gloss over, inescapability and attainability. The book identifies five key questions in which issues of inescapability and attainability emerge. These are the questions of the certainty of our knowledge, the viability of our politics, the continuity of our selves, the accessibility of the past, and the transparency of the future. The book demonstrates how these questions are addressed in different forms and by different intellectual means during the past 200 years and shows how they persist today.
Modernity And Technology
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Author : Thomas J. Misa
language : en
Publisher: MIT Press
Release Date : 2003
Modernity And Technology written by Thomas J. Misa and has been published by MIT Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Science categories.
The book is divided into three parts.
Mead And Modernity
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Author : Filipe Carreira da Silva
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2010-07-08
Mead And Modernity written by Filipe Carreira da Silva and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-07-08 with Political Science categories.
Filipe Carreira da Silva addresses the basic questions 'How should we read Mead?' and 'Why should we read Mead today' by showing that the history of ideas and theory-building are closely-related endeavors. Following a contextualist approach in exploring the meaning of Mead's writings, Carreira da Silva reads the entire corpus of Mead's published and unpublished writings in light of the context in which they were originally produced, from concrete events like the American involvement in World War I to more general debates like that of the nature of modernity. Mead and Modernity attests to the relevance of Mead's ideas by assessing the relative merits of his responses to three fundamental modern problematics: science, selfhood, and democratic politics. The outcome is an innovative intellectual portrait of Mead as a seminal thinker whose contributions extend beyond his well-known social theory of the self and include important insights into the philosophy of science and radical democratic theory.
Routledge International Handbook Of Contemporary Social And Political Theory
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Author : Gerard Delanty
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2011-03-23
Routledge International Handbook Of Contemporary Social And Political Theory written by Gerard Delanty and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-23 with Philosophy categories.
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.
Politics Social Theory Utopia And The World System
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Author : C. el-Ojeili
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2012-01-25
Politics Social Theory Utopia And The World System written by C. el-Ojeili and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-25 with Social Science categories.
It is common to hear that we live in unique, turbulent and crisis-ridden times and this turbulence, transformation and crisis are said to be deeply significant - perhaps threatening - for the human sciences. Responding to such claims, this book provides an accessible engagement with pressing contemporary topics, such as violence, social movements, equality, identity and democracy. Foregrounding the imagination of possibilities (utopia), the mapping of the present (theory), and the transformation of the world-system (historical and global questions), the book surveys central issues and paradigms in contemproary political sociology, urging a recommitment to certain concepts and traditions for guidance in thinking and acting in the world.
Rational Choice Theory
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Author : Margaret S. Archer
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-03
Rational Choice Theory written by Margaret S. Archer and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-03 with Social Science categories.
Rational Choice Theory is flourishing in sociology and is increasingly influential in other disciplines. Contributors to this volume are convinced that it provides an inadequate conceptualization of all aspects of decision making: of the individuals who make the decisions, of the process by which decisions get made and of the context within which decisions get made. The ciritique focuses on the four assumptions which are the bedrock of rational choice: rationality: the theory's definition of rationality is incomplete, and cannot satisfactorily incorporate norms and emotions individualism: rational choice is based upon atomistic, individual decision makers and cannot account for decisions made by ;couples', 'groups' or other forms of collective action process: the assumption of fixed, well-ordered preferences and 'perfect information' makes the theory inadequate for situations of change and uncertainty aggregation: as methodological individualists, rational choice theorists can only view structure and culture as aggregates and cannot incorporate structural or cultural influences as emergent properties which have an effect upon decision making. The critique is grounded in discussion of a wide range of social issues, including race, marriage, health and education.
Profiles In Contemporary Social Theory
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Author : Anthony Elliott
language : en
Publisher: SAGE
Release Date : 2001-07-23
Profiles In Contemporary Social Theory written by Anthony Elliott and has been published by SAGE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-07-23 with Social Science categories.
This comprehensive book provides an indispensable introduction to the most significant figures in contemporary social theory. Grounded strongly in the European tradition, the profiles include Michel Foucault, J[um]urgen Habermas, Roland Barthes, Jean Baudrillard, Pierre Bourdieu, Zygmunt Bauman, Martin Heidegger, Frederic Jameson, Richard Rorty, Nancy Chodorow, Anthony Giddens, Stuart Hall, Luce Irigaray and Donna Haraway. In guiding students through the key figures in an accessible and authoritative fashion, the book provides detailed accounts of the development of the work of major social theorists and charts the relationship between different traditions of social, cultural and political thought.