Modernity : understanding the present

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wagner, Peter , 1956- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Malden, Massachusetts : Polity , c2012
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245 1 0 |a Modernity :   |b understanding the present   |c Peter Wagner 
260 |a Malden, Massachusetts :   |b Polity ,   |c c2012 
300 |a xv, 190 p. ;   |c 23 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index 
505 0 |a 1. Retrieving modernity's past, understanding modernity's present -- 2. Changing views of modernity: from convergence and stability to plurality and transformations -- 3. Successive modernities: crisis, criticism and the idea of progress -- 4. Disentangling the concept of modernity: time, action and problems to be solved -- 5. The link between capitalism and democracy reconsidered -- 6. European and non-European trajectories of modernity compared -- 7. Violence and justice in global modernity: reflections on South Africa with world-sociological intent -- 8. Towards a world-sociology of modernity 
650 0 |a Social change 
650 0 |a Social evolution 
650 0 |a Social history 
999 |a 1000148326   |b Book   |c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)   |e Gong Badak Campus