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In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provoctive interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, “As a first approximation, let us simply say the following: ‘modernity’ refers to modes of social life... read more
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- Marx: Add a description of this character.
- Durkheim
- Weber: The most pesimistic of the founding fathers of sociology, regarding the consequences capitalism's order would have on society.
- Erikson
- Keynes
- Goffman
- Juggernaut: Runaway engine of enormous power which, collectively as human beings, we can drive to some extent but which also threatens to rush out of our control and which could rend itself asunder. It crushes those who resist it, it may sime to have a steady path, but sometines it veers away erratically in directions we cannot foresee.
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In what follows I shall develop an institutional analysis of modernity with cultural and epistemological overtones.
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- Anthony Giddens (Author)
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- Dewey: 301
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