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Modernity at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Modernity at the Beginning of the 21st Century (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Modernity is back on sociology's agenda. From the beginnings of
sociology as an academic discipline, questions surrounding the
meaning and consequences of modernity have fascinated generations
of sociologists. The initial interest in the concept was inspired
by a sense of a deep rupture (and crisis) afflicting European
society, a sense that society was approaching something
fundamentally different from the past, an entirely new form of
societal organization that bore little resemblance to anything
known before. Where exactly this transformation was headed was by
no means clear, but around the 18th century a growing number of
European intellectuals and scholars realized that the changes that
had been in the making since the late 15th century were
irreversible and could not be contained in any particular region or
confined to particular sectors of society, but would ultimately
transform all spheres of life. Like other thinkers, sociologists
observed this transformation with awe, and their attitude towards
it has always been ambivalent. The 20th century, during which
modernity gradually began to break through globally, was also a
century during which many sociologists became increasingly
disillusioned with the promises of "the modern project". But with
the exhaustion of the energies of "postmodernism", the intellectual
movement that wanted to bury modernity, the interest in modernity
began to resurface again; not least because it became increasingly
clear that the world is far from approaching a societal condition
pointing systematically beyond modernity. Instead, we are
witnessing an intensification of modernization processes around the
world.But what is modernity, anyway? The aim of the present volume
is to contribute to the ongoing discussion about the meaning of
modernity and about the significance of modernization processes in
non-Western societies. As befits a subject matter as controversial
and complex at this one, the book's chapters offer no conclusive
answers to the questions they raise and address. The debate about
modernity must and will continue, and one hopes that it will be
conducted in an atmosphere of mutual respect despite sometimes
fierce disagreement between the participants. For only if we listen
to each other can we make genuine intellectual progress.
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