Modernity : an introduction to modern societies / edited by Stuart Hall ... [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014.

Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology.

Physical Description:

xv, 672 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Blackwell, 1996.

Summary:

Understanding Modern Societies is a new sociology textbook which provides a comprehensive and stimulating introduction to the history, sociology and ideas of modern society. It has been written for students and readers who have no prior knowledge of sociology, and is designed to be used in a variety of social science courses in universities and colleges, The book is divided into three parts, corresponding to the formation, consolidation and prospects of modernity. From the start, four major social processes are identified: the social, the cultural, the political, and the economic. These form the basis of the four chapters in Part 1, and organize the narrative or 'story-line' of the rest of the text. In Part 2, they provide the framework for an analyis of what developed industrial societies look like and how they work. And in Part 3, they provide the basis for identifying the emergent social forces and contradictory processes which are radically re-shaping modern societies today.

Contents:

The Enlightenment and the birth of social science / Peter Hamilton

The development of the modern state / David Held

The emergence of the economy / Vivienne Brown

Changing social structures : class and gender / Harriet Bradley

The cultural formations of modern society / Robert Bocock

The West and the rest : discourse and power / Stuart Hall

The State in advanced capitalist societies / Anthony McGrew

Fordism and modern industry / John Allen

Divisions of labor / Peter Braham

Women and the domestic sphere / Helen Crowley

The body and sexuality / Jeffrey Weeks

Religion, values, and ideology / Kenneth Thompson

The 1989 revolutions and the triumph of liberalism / David Held

A global society? / Anthony McGrew

Environmental challenges / Steven Yearley

Post-industrialism /post-Fordism / John Allen

Social pluralism and post-modernity / Kenneth Thompson

The question of cultural identity / Stuart Hall

The Enlightenment project revisited / Gregor McLennan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hazel M. Hussong Fund.

ISBN:

155786716X

9781557867162

OCLC:

32167466