Understanding Modernity

Author : Richard Munch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136875632

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Understanding Modernity by Richard Munch Pdf

First Published in 1988, this volume works towards a new understanding and exploration of the rise and development of modern society, taking its lead from two classical theorists, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. The key concept of this approach is the 'interpenetration' of different spheres of action. Richard Münch begins with an exploration of the points of convergence and divergence in the works of Durkheim and Weber. He then builds, from Durkheim, a new theory of social order as a complex set of ordering, dynamizing, identity-producing and goal-setting factors. Münch also constructs a new theory of personality development, based on Durkheim's view of the duality of human nature. He concludes by assessing weber's contribution to our understanding of how modern social order emerged, showing that the unique features of modern society emerged from the 'interpenetration' of cultural, political, communal and economic spheres in action.

Author : Bram Gieben,Stuart Hall
Publisher : Polity
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1993-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0745609600

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The Formations of Modernity by Bram Gieben,Stuart Hall Pdf

Formations of Modernity is a major introductory textbook offering an account of the important historical processes, institutions and ideas that have shaped the development of modern societies. This challenging and innovative book 'maps' the evolution of those distinctive forms of political, economic, social and cultural life which characterize modern societies, from their origins in early modern Europe to the nineteenth century. It examines the roots of modern knowledge and the birth of the social sciences in the Enlightenment, and analyses the impact on the emerging identity of 'the West' of its encounters through exploration, trade, conquest and colonization, with 'other civilizations'. Designed as an introduction to modern societies and modern sociological analyses, this book is of value to students on a wide variety of social science courses in universities and colleges and also to readers with no prior knowledge of sociology. Selected readings from a broad range of classical writers (Weber, Durkheim, Marx, Freud, Adam Smith, Montesquieu, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau) and contemporary thinkers (Michael Mann, E.P. Thompson, Edward Said) are integrated in each chapter, together with student questions and exercises.

Author : Mark Steven
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501351129

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Understanding Marx, Understanding Modernism by Mark Steven Pdf

A concentrated study of the relationships between modernism and transformative left utopianism, this volume provides an introduction to Marx and Marxism for modernists, and an introduction to modernism for Marxists. Its guiding hypothesis is that Marx's writing absorbed the lessons of artistic and cultural modernity as much as his legacy concretely shaped modernism across multiple media.

Author : Richard Munch
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136875649

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Understanding Modernity by Richard Munch Pdf

First Published in 1988, this volume works towards a new understanding and exploration of the rise and development of modern society, taking its lead from two classical theorists, Emile Durkheim and Max Weber. The key concept of this approach is the 'interpenetration' of different spheres of action. Richard Münch begins with an exploration of the points of convergence and divergence in the works of Durkheim and Weber. He then builds, from Durkheim, a new theory of social order as a complex set of ordering, dynamizing, identity-producing and goal-setting factors. Münch also constructs a new theory of personality development, based on Durkheim's view of the duality of human nature. He concludes by assessing weber's contribution to our understanding of how modern social order emerged, showing that the unique features of modern society emerged from the 'interpenetration' of cultural, political, communal and economic spheres in action.

Author : John Allen,Stuart Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Social structure
ISBN : 0745609619

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Understanding modern societies : an introduction. 2. The political and economic forms of modernity by John Allen,Stuart Hall Pdf

Author : David Gilbert,David Matless,Brian Short
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781444355529

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Geographies of British Modernity by David Gilbert,David Matless,Brian Short Pdf

This volume brings together leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain to illustrate the contribution that geographical thinking can make to understanding modern Britain. The first collection to explore the contribution that geographical thinking can make to our understanding of modern Britain. Contains thirteen essays by leading scholars in the geography and history of twentieth-century Britain. Focuses on how and why geographies of Britain have formed and changed over the past century. Combines economic, political, social and cultural geographies. Demonstrates the vitality of work in this field and its relevance to everyday life.

Author : Peter Wagner
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780745656847

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Modernity by Peter Wagner Pdf

We live in a modern age, but what does ‘modern’ mean and how can a reflection on ‘modernity’ help us to understand the world today? These are the questions that Peter Wagner sets out to answer in this concise and accessible book. Wagner begins by returning to the question of modernity's Western origins and its claims to open up a new and better era in the history of humanity. Modernity's claims and expectations have become more prevalent and widely shared, but in the course of their realization and diffusion they have also been radically transformed. In an acute and engaging analysis, Wagner examines the following key issues among others: - Modernity was based on the hope for freedom and reason, but it created the institutions of contemporary capitalism and democracy. How does the freedom of the citizen relate to the freedom of the buyer and seller today? And what does disaffection with capitalism and democracy entail for the sustainability of modernity? - Rather than a single model of modernity, there is now a plurality of forms of modern socio-political organisation. What does this entail for our idea of progress and our hope that the future world can be better than the present one? - All nuance and broadening notwithstanding, our concept of modernity is in some way inextricably tied to the history of Europe and the West. How can we compare different forms of modernity in a 'symmetric', non-biased or non-Eurocentric way? How can we develop a world-sociology of modernity?

Author : Harvie Ferguson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0813919665

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Modernity and Subjectivity by Harvie Ferguson Pdf

Few concepts have come to dominate the human sciences as much as modernity, yet there is very little agreement over what the term actually means. Every aspect of contemporary human reality--modern society, modern life, modern times, modern art, modern science, modern music, the modern world--has been cited as a part of modernity's distinctive and all-embracing presence. But what is the exact nature of the reality to which the term modern refers? Has not such a promiscuous, ill-defined concept come to obscure and confuse rather than clarify a genuine understanding of our experience? Harvie Ferguson proposes a new view of modernity, arguing that, although it may variously be associated with the Renaissance, the European discovery of the New World, the Reformation, the Industrial Revolution, and many other significant ruptures with primitive or premodern society, modernity fails as an idea if it only defines itself against what it replaced. Instead, he writes, modernity finds its clearest definition through an exploration of subjectivity. For the modern world there is no higher authority than experience. No longer is the human world subordinate to a divine reality beyond the capacity of its own senses. This idea finds its greatest expression in the philosophy of doubt originated by Descartes. Doubt seemed the radical starting point from which to found a wholly modern philosophy that makes the distinction between subject and object, but those who came after Descartes soon reached the limits of self-discovery and became trapped in deepening levels of despair. This despair in turn found expression in the concepts of self and other, and eventually in a dialectic of ego and world, which distinguishes and links together the most important social, cultural, and psychological aspects of modernity. Moving beyond these dualities of subject and object, mind and body, ego and world, and replacing them with the triad of body, soul, and spirit, Ferguson redraws the map of contemporary experience, finding links with the premodern world that modernity's self-founding concealed.

Author : Richard Münch
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Sociology
ISBN : 0710212178

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Understanding Modernity by Richard Münch Pdf

Author : Albert J. Paolini
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 155587875X

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Navigating Modernity by Albert J. Paolini Pdf

"Paolini is concerned with the connections among postcolonialism, globalization, and modernity, and he offers one of the first detailed statements of those connections to be undertaken in the field of IR. Focusing on the Third World, and particularly sub-Saharan Africa, he questions dominant notions of identity and subjectivity in the social sciences."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : G. Bhambra
Publisher : Springer
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780230206410

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Rethinking Modernity by G. Bhambra Pdf

Arguing for the idea of connected histories, Bhambra presents a fundamental reconstruction of the idea of modernity in contemporary sociology. She criticizes the abstraction of European modernity from its colonial context and the way non-Western "others" are disregarded. It aims to establish a dialogue in which "others" can speak and be heard.

Author : Judith Stamps
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1995-01-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780773565012

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Unthinking Modernity by Judith Stamps Pdf

Like their European contemporaries, Innis and McLuhan worked toward a theory of how westerners have developed classifications through which they perceive the world. Moreover, Stamps shows that they used insights derived from their North American experience to add a new, media-based perspective to such a theory. Unthinking Modernity offers unique perspectives on the ways in which economics, politics, and media intertwine to create personal and social consciousness.

Author : Wayne Morrison
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781135427016

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Theoretical Criminology from Modernity to Post-Modernism by Wayne Morrison Pdf

This book incorporates many of the exciting debates in the social sciences and philosophy of knowledge concerning the issues of modernity and post-modernism. It sets out a new project for criminology, a criminology of modernity, and offers a sustained critique of theorizing without a concern for social totalities. This book is designed to place criminological theory at the cutting edge of contemporary debates. Wayne Morrison reviews the history and present state of criminology and identifies a range of social problems and large scale social processes which must be addressed if the subject is to attain intellectual commitment. This book marks a new development in criminological texts and will serve a valuable function not only for students and academics but for all those interested in the project of understanding crime in contemporary conditions.

Author : Willie Watts Miller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2002-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135366681

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Durkheim, Morals And Modernity by Willie Watts Miller Pdf

Thorough and wide-ranging examination of the science of morals, reviving and defending the tradition of a scientific approach to ethics. Engages with recent debates on modernism and morality, demonstrating the contemporary relevance of Durkheim's ideas. This book is intended for social and political theory, philosophy of science and Durkheimian studies within sociology, philosophy and politics.

Author : James P Danaher
Publisher : James Clarke & Company
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780227900475

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Jesus after Modernity by James P Danaher Pdf

During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, modern thinkers came to believe that our notion of truth should be objective, certain, and precise. Mathematics became the model for how truth should be conceptualized, and we sought to eliminate ideas that were vague, ambiguous, or contradictory. The teachings of Jesus, however, are often vague, ambiguous, and even contradictory. Fortunately, a twenty-first century understanding of the human condition has debunked the modern notion of truth, showing it tobe truncated at best. We are now free to rethink our notion of truth in a way that is compatible with the things that Jesus said and did, and equally compatible with what we now know to be our access to truth given the limits of our human condition. Thisvolume sets out to explore these issues in depth and examine what it might mean for us to speak of the truth of the Gospel in a twenty-first century context.