Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.
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“Each of these essays—as well as the replies and critiques at the end of the book—is exemplary, original, and thoughtful, showing the vital state of social theory in coming to terms with the conditions of late modernity.”—Choice
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“Each of these essays—as well as the replies and critiques at the end of the book—is exemplary, original, and thoughtful, showing the vital state of social theory in coming to terms with the conditions of late modernity.”—Choice
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That backbeat that'll get ya' if ya' don't watch out,
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This review is from: Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order (Paperback)
Lash invokes an opposition to modernization as a covering theory for witch burning, the attempted extermination of Crow, Cree, Ojibwa, etc. the attempted extermination of Jews and goodness knows what else. At first blush, the idea stimulates the kind of intellectual satisfaction that's supposed to be associated with a covering theory.Then a possible hazard suggests itself...Modernism, -ization, (moderning, anyone?) is so very vague a term that the designation "opposition to modernism" could seem to apply to, well, darn near anything. When the intent-to-critique is half-discounted to the intent-to-justify (as seems half-inevitable,) it turns out that what emerges is something like the jingoistic jingle "It's a-ok to slay anyone (or thing) that's in the way." In comparison mere Hitlerism seems positively thoughtful. Is that where the reflexive part is supposed to come in?
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New York, Anthony Giddens, Max Weber, Cambridge University Press, Georg Simmel, Scott Lash, The Consequences of Modernity, Jurgen Habermas, The Transformation of Intimacy, Charles Taylor, Soziale Welt, Niklas Luhmann, South Africa, Zygmunt Bauman, Age of Risk, Dead Elvis, Eastern European, Ecological Politics, The Mezzanine, University of Chicago Press New!
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