Globality and Multiple Modernities - Comparative North American & Latin American Perspectives (Hardcover)

This text analyses the Americas, North and South, in the global and comparative arena, showing how these societies gazed at each other and Europe as they followed the road to multiple forms of modernity and globalization. Insights are contributed on the ways in which reflected conceptions of modernity, with utopian overtones, influenced the ways in which politicians and intellectuals viewed their own societies, other societies in the "New World" and the older nations of Europe.;Two themes emerge which address central debates in contemporary sociological theory. The first is that there is no such thing as "modernity" but rather multiple modernities. The US, Canada, Brazil and Spanish America represented different types of "new society" - self-conscious attempts to establish social and political orders. The second is that modernity was always "reflexive".;These projects of social transformation and the models of society that they institutionalized were the result of, and kept triggering, high levels of reflexivity by political and intellectual elites.;These trends have shaped the distinct institutional and cultural patterns that set the American societies apart from each other and from the metropolis against which they defined their early identities. Distinctive civilizational dynamics developed; distinctive paths were shaped by patterns of colonization, the various ethnic mixes and types of ethnic stratification, the social, political and cultural models articulated by elites in different societies, and path-dependent processes of different kinds, particularly the extent to which collective identities crystallized before independence, and the exclusion and inclusion of various social and ethnic groups at different points in time.

General

Imprint:	Sussex Academic Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	2002
First published:	October 2002
Editors:	Luis Roniger • Carlos H. Waisman
Dimensions:	155 x 230 x 28mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	325
ISBN-13:	978-1-902210-45-2
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Globalization Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-902210-45-X
Barcode:	9781902210452

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