Modernity : understanding the present
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Malden, Massachusetts :
Polity ,
c2012
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Table of Contents:
- 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