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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).
' Theorising Welfare is very well written and painstakingly clear.
It is an accessible and original textbook on the welfare state and
the idea of welfare. There is nothing available like it in terms of
its scope and intellectual sweep' - Scott Lash, University of
Lancaster There are many interpretations of welfare and welfare
states, each providing insights into different aspects of welfare
and pointing to different possibilities for its future. Theorising
Welfare provides a guide to these debates through an examination of
seven theoretical perspectives - liberalism, Marxism,
neo-liberalism, post-structuralism, political economy, political
ecology and postmodernism - situating them within their historical
and political contexts.
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