Sociology of Modernity : Liberty and Discipline.

Sociology of Modernity : Liberty and Discipline.

A Sociology of Modernity offers a historical account of social transformation over the past two centuries - focusing on Western Europe, but also looking at the USA and Societ Socialism as distinct varieties of modernity.

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Main Author: Wagner, Peter, 1956 September 18-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge, 1993.
Subjects:
Sociology > Philosophy.
Sociology > Philosophy
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Table of Contents:
  • Book Cover; Title; Contents; Prologue; Acknowledgements; Modes of narrating modernity; Enablement and constraint: Understanding modern institutions; Restricted liberal modernity: The incomplete elaboration of the modern project; Crisis and transformation of modernity: The end of the liberal utopia; Networks of power and barriers to entry: The organization of allocative practices; Building iron cages: The organization of authoritative practices; Discourses on society: Reorganizing the mode of cognitive representation; Pluralization of practices: The crisis of organized modernity.
  • Sociology and contingency: The crisis of the organized mode of representationModernity and self-identity: Liberation and disembedding; Incoherent practices and postmodern selves: The current condition of modernity; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

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