The new Bauman reader (eBook, ePUB)

Thinking sociologically in liquid modern times
Redaktion: Blackshaw, Tony

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Zygmunt Bauman has written more than seventy books over five decades, most taking a single subject and finding doors to open it in all directions. His work is an essential reference point in sociology, but it is time that everyone caught up with him. In this book Tony Blackshaw doesn't just tell us that Bauman is a massive star in sociology, he demonstrates why his light shines brighter than that of almost any other intellectual figure in the world today by offering his readers deep insights into the 'Bauman Effect'. The new Bauman reader is two books in one. On the one hand, it is a critical introduction to a vital and inspiring sociologist who stands against the predictable in 'majority' sociology to draw out daring and new insights from which we can all learn. On the other, it is an anthology of his work chosen with the specific aim of guiding readers, whether undergraduates, postgraduates, academics or general readers to Bauman's original way of 'thinking sociologically', which is as irresistible as the 'liquid' metaphor that guides it.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Princeton University Press
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781784998066
• Artikelnr.: 54994164

Autorenporträt

Tony Blackshaw is Reader at Sheffield Hallam University

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Setting up the encounter Introduction
Tony Blackshaw Part I: Thinking sociologically Introduction
Tony Blackshaw 1. The motive for metaphor
Michael
Hviid Jacobsen 2. Talking sociology
Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Michael
Hviid Jacobsen and Keith Tester 3. Writing sociology
Zygmunt Bauman 4. This is a "liquid modern" world
Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Nicholas Gane Part II: Re
thinking the unit
ideas of sociology Introduction
Tony Blackshaw 5. Class
Zygmunt Bauman 6. Community
Tony Blackshaw 7. Freedom
Zygmunt Bauman 8. Utopia
Zygmunt Bauman 9. Social inequality
Zygmunt Bauman 10. Bureaucracy
Zygmunt Bauman 11. Culture
Zygmunt Bauman Part III: Modernity from a 'liquid' perspective Introduction
Tony Blackshaw 12. Consumerism
Tony Blackshaw 13. Individualization
Zygmunt Bauman 14. Happiness
Zygmunt Bauman 15. Media
Zygmunt Bauman 16. Identity and globalization
Zygmunt Bauman 17. Liquid power
Zygmunt Bauman in conversation with Mark Hauugard 18. Liquid fear
Zygmunt Bauman 19. Liquid surveillance
Slawomir Czapnik The continuing task: Epilogue 20. 'Liquid modernity' fifteen years after
Zygmunt Bauman