Global modernity. : a conceptual sketch /

Introduces and systematizes the concept of global modernity as a prardigm for the analysis of the contemporary era.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schmidt, Volker H. (Volker Hermann)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Series:Palgrave pivot.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Phases of modernity
  • Epistemological and methodological challenges
  • A four-dimensional scheme of modernization. Modernization of social systems: Society, Organizations, Interactions ; Modernization of culture ; Modernization of the person ; Modernization of the organism
  • Global modernization in context
  • Two aspects of polycentric modernity.