Description
Book SynopsisIn this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of the institutional transformations associated with modernity. We do not as yet, he argues, live in a post--modern world.
Table of ContentsPart I:.
Introduction.
The Discontinuities of Modernity.
Security and Danger, Trust and Risk.
Sociology and Modernity.
Modernity, Time and Space.
Disembedding.
Trust.
The Reflexivity of Modernity.
Modernity and Post- Modernity?.
Summary.
Part II:.
The Institutional Dimensions of Modernity.
The Globalizing of Modernity.
Two Theoretical Perspectives.
Dimensions of Globalization.
Part III:.
Trust and Modernity.
Trust in Abstract Systems.
Trust and Expertise.
Trust and Ontological Security.
The Pre-Modern and Modern.
Part IV:.
Abstract Systems and the Transformation of Intimacy.
Trust and Personal Relations.
Trust and Personal Identity.
Risk and Danger in the Modern World.
Risk and Ontological Security.
Adaptive Reactions.
A Phenomonology of Modernity.
Deskilling and Reskilling in Everyday Life.
Objections to Post-Modernity.
Part V:.
Riding the Juggernaut.
Utopian Realism.
Future Orientations.
The Role of Social Movements.
Post-Modernity.
Part VI: .
Is Modernity and Western Project?.
Concluding Observations.
Notes.
