A sociology of modernity

Routledge

1994

xv, 267 p.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 240-260) and index.

9780415081856

Contents: pt. I. Principles of modernity. 1. Modes of narrating modernity. 2. Enablement and constraint: Understanding modern institutions -- pt. II. The first crisis of modernity. 3. Restricted liberal modernity: The incomplete elaboration of the modern project. 4. Crisis and transformation of modernity: The end of the liberal utopia -- pt. III. The closure of modernity. 5. Networks of power and barriers to entry: The organization of allocative practices. 6. Building iron cages: The organization of authoritative practices. 7. Discourses on society: Reorganizing the mode of cognitive representation -- pt. IV. The second crisis of modernity. 8. Pluralization of practices: The crisis of organized modernity. 9. Sociology and contingency: The crisis of the organized mode of representation. 10. Modernity and self-identity: Liberation and disembedding -- pt. V. Towards extended liberal modernity? 11. Incoherent practices and postmodern selves: The current condition of modernity.

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