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Routledge
184 Pages
by
Routledge
184 Pages
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Routledge
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This timely book provides the definitive concise introduction to the phenomenon of Zygmunt Bauman. After introducing the man, his major influences and his special way of 'thinking sociologically', author Blackshaw traces the development of Bauman's project by identifying and explaining the major shifts of emphasis in his work – the break with Marxism and the postmodern 'turn', and the subsequent... Read more
1. An Interim Career Report 2. Bauman’s Sociology: His Theory of Modernity 3. The Ways and Means of the Dragoman 4. Freedom and Security in the Liquid Modern Sociality 5. Consumerism as the Liquid Modern Way of Life. Suggestions for Further Reading
Biography
Tony Blackshaw is Senior Lecturer in sociology at Sheffield Hallam University. He has recently completed two major studies in the sociology of sport and leisure – New Perspectives on Sport and ‘Deviance’: Consumption, Performativity and Social Control (with Tim Crabbe) (2004) and Leisure Life: Myth, Masculinity and Modernity (2003) - both published by Routledge.
