1st Edition
Late Modernity and Social Change Reconstructing Social and Personal Life
By Brian Heaphy
Copyright 2007
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Sometimes social theory can seem dry and intimidating – as if it is something completely apart from everyday life. But in this incisive new text, Brian Heaphy show exactly how the arguments of the great contemporary theorists play out against extended examples from real life.
Introducing the ideas of founding social thinkers including Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel and Freud, and the... Read more
1. Introduction 2. Founding Narratives of Modernity and the Logics of Social Change 3. The Deconstructive Turn 4. Postmodernity and the Cultural Turn 5. Late Modernity and the Reflexive Turn 6. Reconstructing Self and Identity 7. Reflexive Relating and Intimacy 8. Death, Deskilling and Life-Politics 9. The Sociology of Reflexivity or Reflexive Sociology?
Biography
Brian Heaphy is Lecturer in Sociology at Manchester University. His sociological interests include theories of social and cultural change and changing patterns of personal life.
