The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman (eBook, ePUB)

Challenges and Critique
Redaktion: Jacobsen, Michael Hviid; Poder, Poul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Zygmunt Bauman is one of the most inspirational and controversial thinkers on the scene of contemporary sociology. This collection introduces and critically appraises Bauman's contributions to the field, illuminating how he challenges conventional wisdom in sociology. It concludes with an original contribution by Bauman about himself, never before published in English.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317015215
• Artikelnr.: 44863562

Autorenporträt

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Chair of Sociology at the University of Aalborg, Denmark and is Co-Editor of Dansk Sociologi and Acta Sociologica. Poul Poder is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction: the sociology of Zygmunt Bauman - challenge and
critique, Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Poul Poder. Part 1 Methodological
Issues: Bauman on metaphors - a harbinger of humanistic hybrid sociology,
Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Sophia Marshman; Bauman on ambivalence - fully
acknowledging the ambiguity of ambivalence, Matthias Junge. Part 2 Ethics:
Bauman on ethics - intimate ethics for a global world?, Manni Crone; Bauman
on genocide - modernity and mass murder: from classification to
annihilation?, Sophia Marshman. Part 3 Social Integration: Bauman on
freedom - consumer freedom as the integration mechanism of liquid society,
Poul Poder; Bauman on consumerism - living the marked-mediated life, Tony
Blackshaw; Bauman on globalization - the human consequences of a liquid
world, Mark Davis; Bauman on strangers - unwanted peculiarities, Niclas
MÃ¥nsson. Part 4 Politics: Bauman on politics - stillborn democracy, Mikael
Carleheden; Bauman on power - from 'solid' to 'light'?, Robert Campain;
Bauman on Utopia - welcome to the hunting zone, Michael Hviid Jacobsen.
Postscript: Bauman on Bauman - pro domo sua, Zygmunt Bauman; Index.