[PDF] Exploring Individual Modernity eBook

Author : Alex Inkeles
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 49,45 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780231515344

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With contributions by David H. Smith, Karen A. Miller, Amar K. Singh, Vern L. Bengston, and James J. Dowd.

Author : Zubin Meer
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,97 MB
Release : 2011-05-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739122649

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Individualism: The Cultural Logic of Modernity explores ideas of the modern sovereign individual in the western cultural tradition. Divided into two sections, this volume surveys the history of western individualism in both its early and later forms: chiefly from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, and then individualism in the twentieth century. These essays boldly challenge not only the exclusionary framework and self-assured teleology, but also the metaphysical certainty of that remarkablytenacious narrative on "the rise of the individual." Some essays question the correlation of realist characterization to the eighteenth-century British novel, while others champion the continuing political relevance of selfhood in modernist fiction overand against postmodern nihilism. Yet others move to the foreground underappreciated topics, such as the role of courtly cultures in the development of individualism. Taken together, the essays provocatively revise and enrich our understanding of individualism as the generative premise of modernity itself. Authors especially considered include Locke, Defoe, Freud, and Adorno. The essays in this volume first began as papers presented at a conference of the American Comparative Literature Association held atPrinceton University. Among the contributors are Nancy Armstrong, Deborah Cook, James Cruise, David Jenemann, Lucy McNeece, Vivasvan Soni, Frederick Turner, and Philip Weinstein.

Author : Trent MacNamara
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 44,16 MB
Release : 2018-10-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108665578

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How did birth control become legitimate in the United States? One kitchen table at a time, contends Trent MacNamara, who charts how Americans reexamined old ideas about money, time, transcendence, nature, and risk when considering approaches to family planning. By the time Margaret Sanger and other activists began campaigning for legal contraception in the 1910s, Americans had been effectively controlling fertility for a century, combining old techniques with explosive new ideas. Birth Control and American Modernity charts those ideas, capturing a movement that relied less on traditional public advocacy than dispersed action of the kind that nullified Prohibition. Acting in bedrooms and gossip corners where formal power was weak and moral feeling strong, Americans of both sexes gradually normalized birth control in private, then in public, as part of a wider prioritization of present material worlds over imagined eternal continuums. The moral edifice they constructed, and similar citizen movements around the world, remains tenuously intact.

Author : Mustafa O. Attir
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,79 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429724594

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After a period of relative confidence about the future of modernizing societies, scholars are now questioning with renewed urgency the directions of the modernization trend. This book, the result of nearly a decade of collaborative efforts by scholars in twelve countries, examines the modernization process with particular attention to how it is affected by cultural–and especially socioeconomic–variables. The authors describe major theoretical approaches to the idea of modernity and point to the sociological issues interlinked with modernization. They also consider specific factors such as nationalism, ethnicity, and traditional institutions and show how they can determine differing modernization trajectories. The concluding section of the book focuses on nation- and culture-specific examples of modernization, presenting case studies that illustrate the range of modernization attempts. The authors also explore the extent to which modernization may in fact be a generalization of the American way of life.

Author : Peter Wagner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 47,31 MB
Release : 2002-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1134891911

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Rose Laub Coser
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,1 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780804718714

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A Stanford University Press classic.

Author : Tod Sloan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 35,11 MB
Release : 2016-06-10
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 1317210131

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What are the psychological problems caused by modernization? How can we minimize its negative effects? Modernization has brought many material benefits to us, yet we are constantly told how unhappy we are: crime, divorce, suicide, depression and anxiety are rampant. How can this contradiction be reconciled? Damaged Life, originally published in 1996, presents a powerful and progressive analysis of modernity’s impact on the psyche. Tod Sloan develops an integrated theory of the self in society by combining perspectives on personality development and socio-historical processes to explore our complex response to modernization. He discusses the implications of postmodern theory for psychology and proposes concrete responses to address the issue of mass emotional suffering. His book should be read not only by those working within psychology and related disciplines such as sociology and social policy, but also by anyone seeking enlightenment about the predicament of the self in contemporary society.

Author : Raül Tormos
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,91 MB
Release : 2019-11-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9004411917

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In The Rhythm of Modernization, Raül Tormos studies the pace at which belief systems change across the developed world during the modernization process. Contradicting value theories’ assumptions, citizens adapt their beliefs to new circumstances throughout life and modernization happens faster than predicted.