Author: Mustafa Emirbayer
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: modernity, society, sociologist, durkheim, emile
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2003-02-14
List price: $48.95
ISBN-10: 0631219919
ISBN-13: 9780631219910
This comprehensive volume ranges across the entire spectrum of contemporary sociological inquiry, as seen by Durkheim. It also includes secondary readings by social thinkers of today, connecting the classic writings of Durkheim to contemporary issues. Organizes Durkheim’s writings thematically, in a comprehensive collection Includes selections from Durkheim’s best-known writings as well as less widely-known texts that explore the themes of modern sociology Contains secondary readings by key contemporary social thinkers today Connects the classic writings of
Author: Timothy Mitchell
Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press
Keywords: modernity, contradictions, questions
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-10-03
List price: $25.50
ISBN-10: 0816631344
ISBN-13: 9780816631346
Anthropology/Cultural Studies Well-known contributors offer an illuminating look at how modernity develops in non-Western contexts. Modernity has always laid claim to universal certainty-which meant assigning a different and lesser significance to anything deemed purely local, non-Western, or lacking a universal expression. This book makes those very non-Western, non-universal elements the tools for fashioning a more complex, rigorous, and multifaceted understanding of how the modern comes about. Focusing on the making of modernity outside the West, eight leading anthropologists, histori
Author: Ben Singer
Publisher: Columbia University Pre
Keywords: modernity, melodrama
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2001-01-15
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0231113293
ISBN-13: 9780231113298
A Choice Magazine Outstanding Academic Title of the Year; Finalist, Theatre Library Association Award In this groundbreaking investigation into the nature and meanings of melodrama in American culture between 1880 and 1920, Ben Singer offers a challenging new reevaluation of early American cinema and the era that spawned it. Singer looks back to the sensational or "blood and thunder" melodramas (e.g., The Perils of Pauline, The Hazards of Helen, etc.) and uncovers a fundamentally modern cultural expression, one reflecting spectacular transformations in the sensory environment of the metropolis
Author: Peter Wagner
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: modernity
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2012-03-06
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0745652913
ISBN-13: 9780745652917
We live in a modern age, but what does modern mean and how can a reflection on modernity help us to understand the world today? These are the questions that Peter Wagner sets out to answer in this concise and accessible book. Wagner begins by returning to the question of modernity’s Western origins and its claims to open up a new and better era in the history of humanity. Modernity’s claims and expectations have become more prevalent and widely shared, but in the course of their realization and diffusion they have also been radically transformed. In an acute and engaging analys
Author: Zygmunt Bauma
Publisher: Cornell University Pre
Keywords: holocaust, modernity
Number of Pages: 267
Published: 2001-02-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0801487196
ISBN-13: 9780801487194
Attempting to provide a sociological explanation of the Holocaust, the main theme of this work is the demonstration that the Holocaust has to be understood as deeply involved with the nature of modernity - neither a single event nor a simple outpouring of barbarism. The author discusses what sociology can teach us about the Holocaust, but more particularly concentrates upon the lesson which the Holocaust has for sociology. There are two ways, he points out, in which the significance of the Holocaust can be side-stepped in our understanding of modernity. One way is to present the Holocaust as s
Author: Zygmunt Bauma
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: modernity, liquid
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2000-06-15
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 0745624103
ISBN-13: 9780745624105
In this new book, Bauman examines how we have moved away from a ’heavy’ and ’solid’, hardware-focused modernity to a ’light’ and ’liquid’, software-based modernity. This passage, he argues, has brought profound change to all aspects of the human condition. The new remoteness and un-reachability of global systemic structure coupled with the unstructured and under-defined, fluid state of the immediate setting of life-politics and human togetherness, call for the rethinking of the concepts and cognitive frames used to narrate human individual experi
Author: Don Slater
Publisher: Polity
Keywords: modernity, culture, consumer
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 1999-02-10
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0745603041
ISBN-13: 9780745603049
This book provides a comprehensive introduction to the issues, concepts and theories through which people have tried to understand consumer culture throughout the modern period, and puts the current state of thinking into a broader context. Thematically organized, the book shows how the central aspects of consumer culture - such as needs, choice, identity, status, alienation, objects, culture - have been debated within modern theories, from those of earlier thinkers such as Marx and Simmel to contemporary forms of post-structuralism and postmodernism. This approach introduces consumer cultu
