| Description |
ix, 347 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction: Detraditionalization and its Rivals /Paul Heelas -- 2. Individualization and 'Precarious Freedoms': Perspectives and Controversies of a Subject-orientated Sociology / Ulrich Beck and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- 3. Morality in the Age of Contingency / Zygmunt Bauman -- 4. Complexity, Structural Contingencies and Value Conflicts / Niklas Luhmann -- 5. The Privatization of Religion and Morality / Thomas Luckmann -- 6. Tradition and Self in a Mediated World / John B. Thompson -- 7. Identity, Meaning and Globalization: Detraditionalization in Postmodern Space-time Compression / Timothy W. Luke --8. Detraditionalization and the Certainty of Uncertain Futures / Barbara Adam -- 9. Detraditionalization, Character and the Limits to Agency / Colin Campbell --10. The Foreigner / Richard Sennett -- 11. On Things not being Worse, and the Ethic of Humanity / Paul Heelas -- 12. Community Beyond Tradition / Paul Morris |
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13. Tradition and the Limits of Difference / Scott Lash -- 14. Databases as Discourse, or Electronic Interpellations / Mark Poster -- 15. Authority and the Genealogy of Subjectivity / Nikolas Rose |
| Notes |
Papers from a 1993 international conference organized by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Values at Lancaster University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Acculturation -- Congresses.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century -- Congresses.
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Acculturation.
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Group identity -- Congresses.
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Civilization, Modern -- 20th century.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects -- Congresses.
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Group identity.
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Postmodernism -- Social aspects.
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Social values -- Congresses.
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Social values.
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| Author |
Heelas, Paul.
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Lash, Scott.
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Morris, Paul (Paul M.)
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Centre for the Study of Cultural Values at Lancaster University
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| LC no. |
95014818 |
| ISBN |
155786554X |
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1557865558 (paperback) |
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