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Author | : Alex Inkeles |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2010-06-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780231515344 |
With contributions by David H. Smith, Karen A. Miller, Amar K. Singh, Vern L. Bengston, and James J. Dowd.
Author | : Alex Inkeles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : |
With contributions by David H. Smith, Karen A. Miller, Amar K. Singh, Vern L. Bengston, and James J. Dowd.
Author | : Inkeles |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 148 |
Release | : 2022-03-28 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004473432 |
Author | : Anthony Giddens |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2013-04-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745666485 |
This major study develops a new account of modernity and its relation to the self. Building upon the ideas set out in The Consequences of Modernity, Giddens argues that 'high' or 'late' modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a transformation of day-to-day social life having profound implications for personal activities. The self becomes a 'reflexive project', sustained through a revisable narrative of self identity. The reflexive project of the self, the author seeks to show, is a form of control or mastery which parallels the overall orientation of modern institutions towards 'colonising the future'. Yet it also helps promote tendencies which place that orientation radically in question - and which provide the substance of a new political agenda for late modernity. In this book Giddens concerns himself with themes he has often been accused of unduly neglecting, including especially the psychology of self and self-identity. The volumes are a decisive step in the development of his thinking, and will be essential reading for students and professionals in the areas of social and political theory, sociology, human geography and social psychology.
Author | : Trent MacNamara |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 319 |
Release | : 2018-10-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108665578 |
How did birth control become legitimate in the United States? One kitchen table at a time, contends Trent MacNamara, who charts how Americans reexamined old ideas about money, time, transcendence, nature, and risk when considering approaches to family planning. By the time Margaret Sanger and other activists began campaigning for legal contraception in the 1910s, Americans had been effectively controlling fertility for a century, combining old techniques with explosive new ideas. Birth Control and American Modernity charts those ideas, capturing a movement that relied less on traditional public advocacy than dispersed action of the kind that nullified Prohibition. Acting in bedrooms and gossip corners where formal power was weak and moral feeling strong, Americans of both sexes gradually normalized birth control in private, then in public, as part of a wider prioritization of present material worlds over imagined eternal continuums. The moral edifice they constructed, and similar citizen movements around the world, remains tenuously intact.
Author | : Zygmunt Bauman |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 120 |
Release | : 2013-04-26 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0745637159 |
The production of ‘human waste’ – or more precisely, wasted lives, the ‘superfluous’ populations of migrants, refugees and other outcasts – is an inevitable outcome of modernization. It is an unavoidable side-effect of economic progress and the quest for order which is characteristic of modernity. As long as large parts of the world remained wholly or partly unaffected by modernization, they were treated by modernizing societies as lands that were able to absorb the excess of population in the ‘developed countries’. Global solutions were sought, and temporarily found, to locally produced overpopulation problems. But as modernization has reached the furthest lands of the planet, ‘redundant population’ is produced everywhere and all localities have to bear the consequences of modernity’s global triumph. They are now confronted with the need to seek – in vain, it seems – local solutions to globally produced problems. The global spread of the modernity has given rise to growing quantities of human beings who are deprived of adequate means of survival, but the planet is fast running out of places to put them. Hence the new anxieties about ‘immigrants’ and ‘asylum seekers’ and the growing role played by diffuse ‘security fears’ on the contemporary political agenda. With characteristic brilliance, this new book by Zygmunt Bauman unravels the impact of this transformation on our contemporary culture and politics and shows that the problem of coping with ‘human waste’ provides a key for understanding some otherwise baffling features of our shared life, from the strategies of global domination to the most intimate aspects of human relationships.
Author | : Peter Wagner |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2002-11 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134891911 |
First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Rose Laub Coser |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780804718714 |
A Stanford University Press classic.
Author | : Athanasia Chalari |
Publisher | : SAGE |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2016-11-08 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1473987679 |
What it socialization? What is interaction? What do we mean by identity? How can we explain the notion of self? What do we mean by intra-action? The Sociology of the Individual is an innovative and though-provoking sociological exploration of how the ideas of the individual and society relate. Expertly combining conceptual depth with clarity of style, Athanasia Chalari: explains the key sociological and psychological theories related to the investigation of the social and the personal analyses the ways that both sociology and psychology can contribute to a more complete understanding and theorising of everyday life uses a mix of international cases and everyday examples to encourage critical reflection. The Sociology of the Individual is an essential read for upper level undergraduates or postgraduates looking for a deeper and more sophisticated understanding of the connection between the social world and the inner life of the individual. Perfect for modules exploring the sociology of the self, self and society, and self and identity.
Author | : Tod Sloan |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2016-06-10 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 1317210131 |
What are the psychological problems caused by modernization? How can we minimize its negative effects? Modernization has brought many material benefits to us, yet we are constantly told how unhappy we are: crime, divorce, suicide, depression and anxiety are rampant. How can this contradiction be reconciled? Damaged Life, originally published in 1996, presents a powerful and progressive analysis of modernity’s impact on the psyche. Tod Sloan develops an integrated theory of the self in society by combining perspectives on personality development and socio-historical processes to explore our complex response to modernization. He discusses the implications of postmodern theory for psychology and proposes concrete responses to address the issue of mass emotional suffering. His book should be read not only by those working within psychology and related disciplines such as sociology and social policy, but also by anyone seeking enlightenment about the predicament of the self in contemporary society.