Martin O'Brien, Sue Penna (Lecturer In Applied Social Science University Of Lancaster), Colin Hay

Theorising Modernity (eBook, ePUB)

Reflexivity, Environment & Identity in Giddens' Social Theory

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume explores questions of modernity through critical engagements with the work of Anthony Giddens, focusing in particular on the relationships between his social theory and political sociology. Three substantive areas - reflexivity, environment and identity - are examined theoretically through the relationships between reflexivity and rationality, life politics and institutional power, and universalism and 'difference'. As well as specifically addressing Giddens' reconstruction of sociology, the contributors also explore a wide variety of critical issues currently occupying centre stage in social theory. These include questions about the character of contemporary societies, the periodisation of social change, the processes of change by which societies are constantly made and remade by people, the relationships between the 'social' and the 'natural', the formation and maintenance of identities and matters of epistemology and methodology in social science.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317884170
• Artikelnr.: 41212626

Autorenporträt

Martin O'Brien

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements The Contributors 1. Introduction
Sue Penna, Martin O'Brien and Colin Hay 2. Theorising Modernity: Reflexivity, Identity and Environments in Giddens' Social Theory
Martin O'Brien 3. Radical Politics
Neither Left Nor Right?
Ted Benton 4. Beyond Emancipation? the reflexivity of social movements
Paul Bagguley 5. Exploring Post
Traditional Orders: Individual Reflexivity, 'Pure Relations and Duality of Structure
Nicos Mouzelis 6. Life Politics, the Environment and the Limits of Sociology
Peter Dickens 7. Criminality, Social Environments and Late Modernity
Dave Smith 8. Modernity and the Politics of Identity
Martin O'Brien and Jenny Harris 9. Theorising Identity, Difference and Social Divisions
Floya Anthios 10. A World of Differences: What if it's so? How will we know?
Charles Lemert 11. Responses and Reflections: An Interview with Anthony Giddens Bibliography Index