Modernity as Experience and Interpretation: A New Sociology of Modernity

by Peter Wagner

Book Overview

We are all modern today. But modernity today is not what it used to be. Over the past few decades, modernity has been radically changed by globalization, individualization, new inequalities, and fundamentalism. A novel way of analysing contemporary societies is needed. This book proposes such an analysis.

Every society seeks answers to certain basic questions: how to order life in common; how to satisfy human needs; how to establish knowledge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0745642195
• ISBN13: 9780745642192
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.9"