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Social Theory in a Changing World: Conceptions of Modernity

ISBN: 978-0-7456-1918-7
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224 pages
August 1999, Polity
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* This book is designed as an upper-level textbook in social theory. It offers clear and concise appraisals of the work of a number of key contemporary thinkers, including Habermas, Foucault, Giddens and Beck.
* The author focuses on ways in which contemporary social thinkers have conceptualised modernity - that is, how they understand the distinctive features and developmental trends of modern societies.
* He also offers his own distinctive account of modernity, arguing that modernity involves a central conflict between autonomy and fragmentation. Hence, this book also makes an original contribution to contemporary debates.

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