Sociology of Modernity

First Published in 2004. Confusion reigns in sociological accounts of the curent condition of modernity. The story-lines from the ''end of the subject'' to ''a new individualism'', from the ''dissolution of society'' to the re-emergence of ''civil society'', from the ''end of modernity'' to an ''other modernoity'' to ''neo-modernization''. This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of a hi...