The Individual After Modernity

Author : Mira Marody
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000215298

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Moving beyond the individualisation paradigm in sociological theory, this book develops an approach to the analysis of human activities and the social phenomena produced by them that centres on the processes that generate coordinated behaviours among individuals. Emphasising the relational and processual character of social phenomena, as well as the importance of a broader cultural and historical context for analysing them, the author questions the view of contemporary society that sees individuals acting in a context in which social bonds are dissolving, and unveils the rationale hidden behind the chaos of everyday activities. Through an analysis of the continued importance of cooperation and the consequent emergence in society of various kinds of communities, this volume examines the changing character of social ties. An overview of transformation of social bonds and the intensification of mutual influences among individuals as they seek to address social dilemmas in new contexts, The Individual after Modernity will appeal to social scientists with interests in social theory.

Author : Alex Inkeles
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0231515340

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Exploring Individual Modernity by Alex Inkeles Pdf

With contributions by David H. Smith, Karen A. Miller, Amar K. Singh, Vern L. Bengston, and James J. Dowd.

Author : Malcolm Waters
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : 0415201861

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Modernity: After modernity by Malcolm Waters Pdf

V.1 Modernization -- V.2 Cultural modernity -- V.3 Odern system -- V.4 After modernity.

Author : Thomas C. Oden
Publisher : Zondervan
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780310753919

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After Modernity-- What? by Thomas C. Oden Pdf

This vigorous and incisive critique of modernity lights the path to recovering the revitalizing heritage of classical Christianity.

Author : Zubin Meer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739122648

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Individualism by Zubin Meer Pdf

Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century. These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkablytenacious narrative on "the rise of the individual." Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance of selfhood in modernist fiction overand against postmodern nihilism. Yet others move to the foreground underappreciated topics, such as the role of courtly cultures in the development of individualism. Taken together, the essays provocatively revise and enrich our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself. Authors especially considered include Locke, Defoe, Freud, and Adorno. The essays in this volume first began as papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held atPrinceton University. Among the contributors are Nancy Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise, David Jenemann, Lucy McNeece, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein.

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745666488

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Modernity and Self-Identity by Anthony Giddens Pdf

This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to-day social life having profound implications for personal activities. The self becomes a 'reflexive project', sustained through a revisable narrative of self identity. The reflexive project of the self, the author seeks to show, is a form of control or mastery which parallels the overall orientation of modern institutions towards 'colonising the future'. Yet it also helps promote tendencies which place that orientation radically in question - and which provide the substance of a new political agenda for late modernity. In this book Giddens concerns himself with themes he has often been accused of unduly neglecting, including especially the psychology of self and self-identity. The volumes are a decisive step in the development of his thinking, and will be essential reading for students and professionals in the areas of social and political theory, sociology, human geography and social psychology.

Author : Zubin Meer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780739165874

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Individualism by Zubin Meer Pdf

Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century. These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkably tenacious narrative on 'the rise of the individual.' Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance of selfhood in modernist fiction over and against postmodern nihilism. Yet others move to the foreground underappreciated topics, such as the role of courtly cultures in the development of individualism. Taken together, the essays provocatively revise and enrich our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself. Authors especially considered include Locke, Defoe, Freud, and Adorno. The essays in this volume first began as papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held at Princeton University. Among the contributors are Nancy Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise, David Jenemann, Lucy McNeece, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein.

Author : Gregor Fitzi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351983556

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The Challenge of Modernity by Gregor Fitzi Pdf

The complete collected works of Georg Simmel are now available. Yet, the standing of Simmel’s sociological theory is still a subject of controversy. Is Simmel only a brilliant impressionist, a flâneur in the territories of modernity? Providing an illuminating and coherent presentation of Simmel’s sociological theory, The Challenge of Modernity seeks to demonstrate how Simmel contributed a structured sociological theory that fits the criteria of a ‘sociological grand theory’. Indeed, starting by the theory of modernity and its dimensions of social differentiation, monetarisation, culture reification and urbanisation; it reconstructs the architecture of Simmel’s sociological epistemology. Particular attention is dedicated to the theory of ‘qualitative societal differentiation’ that Simmel develops within his cultural sociology, with the late work being presented as a double contribution to the foundation of sociological anthropology and to the social ethics of complex societies. Presenting the entirety of Simmel’s manifold oeuvre from the viewpoint of its relevance for sociology, this comprehensive volume will appeal to scholars and advanced students who wish to understand Simmel’s relevance for socio-political thought and become acquainted with his contribution to sociological theory. It will also be of interest to the wider public who seek a critical assessment of our age in theoretical terms.

Author : Ted V. McAllister
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015037138784

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Revolt Against Modernity by Ted V. McAllister Pdf

Provides the first comparison of the thought of these two political philosophers and its influence on contemporary American conservatism.

Author : Inkeles,Holsinger
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-28
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004473430

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Education and Individual Modernity in Developing Countries by Inkeles,Holsinger Pdf

Author : Zygmunt Bauman
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745656854

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Postmodernity and its Discontents by Zygmunt Bauman Pdf

When Freud wrote his classic Civilization and its Discontents, he was concerned with repression. Modern civilization depends upon the constraint of impulse, the limiting of self expression. Today, in the time of modernity, Bauman argues, Freud's analysis no longer holds good, if it ever did. The regulation of desire turns from an irritating necessity into an assault against individual freedom. In the postmodern era, the liberty of the individual is the overriding value, the criterion in terms of which all social rules and regulations are assessed. Postmodernity is governed by the 'will to happiness': the result, however, is a sacrificing of security. The most prominent anxieties in our society today, Bauman shows, derive from the removal of security. The world is experienced as overwhelmingly uncertain, uncontrollable and frightening. Totalitarian politics frightened by its awesome power; the new social disorder frightens by its lack of consistency and direction. The very pursuit of individual happiness corrupts and undermines those systems of authority needed for a stable life. This book builds imaginatively upon Bauman's earlier contributions to social theory. It consolidates his reputation as the interpreter of postmodernity. The book will appeal to second-year undergraduates and above in sociology, cultural studies, philosophy and anthropology.

Author : A. David Napier
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004-04-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0812237765

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The Righting of Passage by A. David Napier Pdf

Today, much theory in the social sciences assumes that the acceptance of experience as inevitably unruly means that it is characterized by constant change and even by chaos. In such a world, we are told, the unordered qualities of daily living create so much uncertainty that identity itself becomes unstable. But this view, David Napier argues, begs a fundamental question: if contemporary life is as flexible and unstructured as, for example, postmodernists maintain, and we, in turn, are products of such a world, how might any of us order our thinking enough to recognize what is meaningful in life, let alone describe our experiences in ways that might have meaning for others? If we are truly the products of modernity, Napier says, we must either accept our inability to structure and shape our own sensations or, alternately, argue for some form of humanism that sees a struggling, existential self living unsettled within its unstructured environment. Were either circumstance universally the case, the world would, of course, be a rather different place; for there would be no shared literature called "postmodern," and there would be no one to dissect such experience for us: no authors with coherent identities, no theories that could be communicated, no books bought or read, no university departments dedicated to the industry of chaos. In short, there would be no ordered space for interpersonal understanding in such a world. This is the premise that informs The Righting of Passage. In this challenging book Napier offers a novel argument that accounts for diffuse and flexible notions of the self while also illustrating how a coherent, communicating self persists amid such apparent instability. This he does by arguing something entirely counterintuitive to both modernist and postmodernist positions—namely, that modernity's increasing separation of embodiment from meaning not only slows down human transformation but attenuates human growth by encouraging us to perceive risk as largely pathological. Today, the combined forces of stress management, depth psychology, therapeutic writing, dislocated meaning, and of institutional conformity work together to produce a reduction—not a proliferation—of change in human life.

Author : Rose Laub Coser
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0804718717

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In Defense of Modernity by Rose Laub Coser Pdf

A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Brian Heaphy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134460991

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Late Modernity and Social Change by Brian Heaphy Pdf

Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating – as if it is something completely apart from everyday life. But in this incisive new text, Brian Heaphy show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real life. Introducing the ideas of founding social thinkers including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Freud, and the work of key contemporary theorists, among them Lacan, Foucault, Lyotrad, Baudrillard, Bauman, Giddens and Beck, the book begins by examining the merits of the 'late modernity' thesis against those of the proponents of 'post-modernity'. The authors show the wide swoop of influence of 'post-modern' thought and how it has changed the way even its opponents think. It also discusses feminist, queer and post-colonial ideas about studying modern and post-modern experience. With examples from personal life (including self and identity, relational and intimate life, death, dying and life-politics) to bring theory to life, this clear and concise new text on contemporary social theory and social change is ideal for students of sociology, cultural studies and social theory.

Author : Ely D. Gomez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Mass media
ISBN : MSU:31293101466997

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The Role of Mass Media in the Modernization of the Individual by Ely D. Gomez Pdf