{"product_id":"reflexive-modernization-politics-tradition-and-aesthetics-in-the-modern-social-order-paperback","title":"Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eUlrich Beck\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eAnthony Giddens\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eScott Lash\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of \"reflexive modernization\" for social and cultural theory today.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eUlrich Beck's vision of the \"risk society\" has already become extraordinarily influential. Beck offers a new elaboration of his basic ideas, connecting reflexive modernization with new issues to do with the state and political organization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eGiddens offers an in-depth examination of the connections between \"institutional reflexivity\" and the de-traditionalizing of the modern world. We are entering, he argues, a phase of the development of a global society. A \"global society\" is not a world society, but one with universalizing tendencies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLash develops the theme of reflexive modernization in relation the aesthetics and the interpretation of culture. In this domain, he suggests, we need to look again at the conventional theories of postmodernism; \"aesthetic modernization\" has distinctive qualities that need to be uncovered and analyzed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIn the concluding sections of the book, the three authors offer critical appraisals of each other's viewpoints, providing a synthetic conclusion to the work as a whole.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of these essays--as well as the replies and critiques at the end of the book--is exemplary, original, and thoughtful, showing the vital state of social theory in coming to terms with the conditions of late modernity.--Choice\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eUlrich Beck is Professor of Sociology at the University of Munich. Anthony Giddens is Professor of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. Scott Lash is Professor of Sociology at the University of Lancaster.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 228\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.59 x 8.9 x 6.08 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 01, 1994\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42131168755847,"sku":"9780804724722","price":47.88,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/f918fd7ff94b1c8c7980177f6f5f9a68.webp?v=1732616854","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/reflexive-modernization-politics-tradition-and-aesthetics-in-the-modern-social-order-paperback","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}