Modernity at the beginning of the 21st century / edited by Volker H. Schmidt.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Schmidt, Volker H.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern--21st century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy and civilization.

Social structure--Philosophy.

Social structure.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 any...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; CHAPTER ONE; CHAPTER TWO; CHAPTER THREE; CHAPTER FOUR; CHAPTER FIVE; CHAPTER SIX; CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT; CHAPTER NINE; CONTRIBUTORS

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

ISBN:

1-282-02977-0

9786612029776

1-4438-0225-5

OCLC:

815767165