1st Edition
Latin America and Contemporary Modernity A Sociological Interpretation
Introduction 1. Law, Rights and Justice 2. Development, Globalization and the Search for Alternatives 3. Identities and Domination, Solidarity and Projects. Conclusion
Biography
Dominguez is Executive Director of Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute (IUPERJ) and a member of the International Editorial Board of The European Journal of Social Theory. He has published extensively on social and sociological theory and on the sociology of modernity and Latin America; books include: Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity (1995), Social Creativity, Collective Subjectivity and Contemporary Modernity (2000), Do ocidente à modernidade. Intelectuais e mudança social (2003), Estudos de sociologia (2004), Modernity Reconstructed (2006), and Aproximações à América Latina (2007).
"Combining empirical-historical sensitiveness and analytical sharpness, J. Mauricio Domingues has delivered a pathbreaking book: an indispensable reference for all those interested in understanding Latin America's role in global modernity"
Sérgio Costa, Sociologist at the University of Flensburg
