What is modernity? Do we all experience modernity in the same
way? How should we understand contemporary social change? This
volume explores questions of modernity through critical engagements
with the work of Anthony Giddens, focusing in particular on the
relationships between his social theory and political sociology.
Three substantive areas - reflexivity, environment and identity -
are examined theoretically through the relationships between
reflexivity and rationality, life politics and institutional power,
and universalism and 'difference'.
As well as specifically addressing Giddens' reconstruction of
sociology, the contributors also explore a wide variety of critical
issues currently occupying centre stage in social theory. These
include questions about the character of contemporary societies,
the periodisation of social change, the processes of change by
which societies are constantly made and remade by people, the
relationships between the 'social' and the 'natural', the formation
and maintenance of identities and matters of epistemology and
methodology in social science.
Theorising Modernity will be of interest to undergraduate and
postgraduate students of sociology, modern political thought,
social geography and social policy and to social scientists trying
to make sense of the modernity debate.
Martin O'Brien is Research at the University of Derby. Sue Penna is
a Lecturer in Applied Social Science at Lancaster University. Colin
Hay is a Lecturer in the Department of Political Science and
International Studies at the University of Birmingham (UK), a
Visiting Fellow of the Department of Political Science at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (US) and Research Affiliate
of the Centre for European Studies at Harvard University
(US).
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