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The consequences of modernity
01 Jan 1990-
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a Phenomonology of modernity and post-modernity in the context of trust in abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy in the modern world.
Abstract: Part I:. Introduction. The Discontinuities of Modernity. Security and Danger, Trust and Risk. Sociology and Modernity. Modernity, Time and Space. Disembedding. Trust. The Reflexivity of Modernity. Modernity and Post-- Modernity?. Summary. Part II:. The Institutional Dimensions of Modernity. The Globalizing of Modernity. Two Theoretical Perspectives. Dimensions of Globalization. Part III:. Trust and Modernity. Trust in Abstract Systems. Trust and Expertise. Trust and Ontological Security. The Pre--Modern and Modern. Part IV:. Abstract Systems and the Transformation of Intimacy. Trust and Personal Relations. Trust and Personal Identity. Risk and Danger in the Modern World. Risk and Ontological Security. Adaptive Reactions. A Phenomonology of Modernity. Deskilling and Reskilling in Everyday Life. Objections to Post--Modernity. Part V:. Riding the Juggernaut. Utopian Realism. Future Orientations. The Role of Social Movements. Post--Modernity. Part VI: . Is Modernity and Western Project?. Concluding Observations. Notes.
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...Aesthetic reflexivity Recent social theory concerned with ‘modernity’ has identified the ability to be reflexive about and mobilize cultural forms as a hallmark of being in so-called ‘high’ modern societies (Lash and Urry 1994; Giddens 1990; 1991)....
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...This process leads to growing transnational interdependence of economic and social actors, an increase in both opportunities and risks, and to intensified competition (Beck 2000; Giddens 1990; Held et al. 1999)....
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...This process leads to growing transnational interdependence of economic and social actors, an increase in both opportunities and risks, and to intensified competition (Beck, 2000; Giddens, 1990; Held et al., 1999)....
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...They do share many other things with “absent others” as well, as Giddens (1990) put it, and increasingly so, as with Virilio’s notion of telepresence....
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...They do share many other things with “absent others” as well, as Giddens (1990) put it, and increasingly so, as with Virilio’s notion of telepresence....
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TL;DR: Social memory studies is a nonparadigmatic, transdisciplinary, centerless enterprise as discussed by the authors, and despite substantial work in a variety of disciplines, substantive areas, and geographical contexts, social memory studies are a non paradigmatic and non-disciplinary enterprise.
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...Recent work by Giddens (1990, 1994) has moved in this direction....
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