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Aims to bring together a renewed perspective of critical theory and the theories of social movements in order to think about emancipation globally. Brings together contributions from all over the world in order to achieve a multifaceted standpoint.
Modernity and Critique: Elements of a World Sociology1
Modernity and Critique: Elements of a World Sociology1
Introduction
After the parallel demise of modernization theory and its critical opponent, the neo-Marxist theory of late capitalism, which together dominated the sociological analysis of contemporary societies up to the 1970s, no new convincing approach to understanding current socio-political configurations has emerged. Neither neo-modernization theory nor the ‘multiple modernities’ approach, which stand in loose relation to modernization theory and its critics, respectively, have the same coherence and comprehensiveness of their predecessors, and, indeed, they suffer from considerable weaknesses. I have discussed the changing conceptual constellations in the analysis of modernity elsewhere (most recently, Wagner, 2012: Chapters 1 and 2) and will not return to this matter in any ...
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