Modernity : understanding the present - Wagner, Peter , 1956- (Malden, Massachusetts : Polity, 2012)
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
Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-182) and index
Keywords: Social change; Social evolution; Social history