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Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order | 
 enlarge | Authors: Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash
Publisher: Stanford University Press
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Sales Rank: 652723
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 228
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6.4 x 0.6
ISBN: 0804724725
Dewey Decimal Number: 301
EAN: 9780804724722
ASIN: 0804724725
Publication Date: October 1, 1994
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Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.
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That backbeat that'll get ya' if ya' don't watch out May 24, 2004
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Lash invokes an opposition to modernization as a covering theory for witch burning, the attempted extermination of Crow, Cree, Ojibwa, etc. the attempted extermination of Jews and goodness knows what else. At first blush, the idea stimulates the kind of intellectual satisfaction that's supposed to be associated with a covering theory.Then a possible hazard suggests itself...Modernism, -ization, (moderning, anyone?) is so very vague a term that the designation "opposition to modernism" could seem to apply to, well, darn near anything. When the intent-to-critique is half-discounted to the intent-to-justify (as seems half-inevitable,) it turns out that what emerges is something like the jingoistic jingle "It's a-ok to slay anyone (or thing) that's in the way." In comparison mere Hitlerism seems positively thoughtful. Is that where the reflexive part is supposed to come in?
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