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World Risk Society and Constructing Cosmopolitan Realities: A Bourdieusian Critique of Risk Society [PDF]
Frontiers in Sociology, 2022 Current global crises and threats have revealed the growing implications of Ulrich Beck's theory of risk society. Rather than being a theory of risk, risk society theory is more a social theory of the new social world and modernity.
Abbas Jong
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University of Chitral Journal of Linguistics and Literature, 2021 The study explores the notion of ‘Modernity’ in the two texts Ten Minutes and 38 Seconds in This Strange World (2019) and Black Milk: On Motherhood and Writing (2007), written by British Turkish novelist Elif Shafak.
Huma Saeed
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A Reflexive History of Jews in Classical Sociological Theorizing of Modernity
Sociologica, 2020 A reflexive history of sociological thought calls for uncovering the hidden intellectual assumptions that shape social theorizing often in unfruitful ways.
David L. Swartz
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Mobilitas dan Refleksivitas: Strategi Pemuda Yogyakarta di Masa Transisi menuju Dunia Kerja
JSW (Jurnal Sosiologi Walisongo), 2020 This article explains the transition process and youth strategy in Yogyakarta in the era of late modernity. Departing from the context of late modernity in Indonesia, this article applies the concept of mobility as a strategy and reflexive capacity of ...
Magdalena Putri Kuslarassakti +1 more
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Constructing and Deconstructing the Modern Hero in The Dark Knight Trilogy
SAGE Open, 2022 This article aims to reveal the various representations of modernity and postmodernity in Christopher Nolan’s Batman Begins (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Dark Knight Rises (2012).
Göral Erinç Yılmaz, Serkan Fundalar
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The intersubjectivist conception of autonomy: Axel Honneth’s Neo-Hegelian critique of liberalism [PDF]
Filozofija i Društvo, 2017 The paper reconstructs Axel Honneth’s Neo-Hegelian critique of the classical-liberal conception of autonomy and his articulation of an alternative view of personal autonomy as the property of certain types of intersubjective relations of ...
Ivković Marjan
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Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2013 The article provides a programmatic analysis of some of the main theories of modernization, globalization and individualization in late modernity, connecting this analysis to the sociology of youth.
Frédéric Vandenberghe
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In good company: risk, security and choice in young people's drug decisions [PDF]
, 2007 This article draws on original empirical research with young people to question the degree to which 'individualisation of risk', as developed in the work of Beck and Giddens, adequately explains the risks young people bear and take.
Beck U. +12 more
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Choice of Innovative Technologies as a Factor of Modernization of the Industrial Plants
Vestnik MGIMO-Universiteta, 2015 The article analyzes the need to develop a new type of interaction between providers of the equipment and its end-users in a changing social and cultural reality.
Evgheniya A. Panfilova
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Reflexive Identity Construction in South Asian American Diaspora in Jhumpa Lahiri’s The Namesake
ES Review, 2021 Cultural identity in contemporary diasporic communities is dynamic, multifaceted, and cyclical. In the age of reflexive modernity, it is imperative to think about new ways of conceptualizing the experience of individuals straddling multiple geographies ...
Muqarram Khorakiwala
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