New Paradigm for Understanding Today's World

by Alain Touraine

In the first centuries of modernization in the West, the social world was described and thought of in terms of politics. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, capitalism freed itself from political power and gave birth to another paradigm, one that was both economic and social.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745636721
• ISBN13: 9780745636726
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"