Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity

This book considers the social and cultural aspects of 20th-century modern industrial social formations, focusing on Britain and Europe, with reference to North America and Australasia. The main topics of the social dimension include an analysis of the class, gender and racial divsions; women, the family, and the romantic sphere; patterns of consumption; and conceptions of the self, the body and sexuality. The section on cultural dimensions focuses on an analysis of contemporary ideologies and belief systems; the growth in popular culture, the revolution in mass communications; the reshaping of knowledge in education and the modern metropolis as the privileged scene of modernity.

List of contents

Book 1: Formations of Modernity Book 2: Political and Economic forms of Modernity
Book 3: Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity
Book 4: Modernity and its Futures

Summary

Considers the social and cultural aspects of 20th-century modern industrial social formations, focusing on Britain and Europe, and with some reference to North America and Australasia.

Product details

• Authors: R. Bocock, Stuart Hall, Kenneth Thompson
• Assisted by: Robert Bocock (Editor), Robert (Respectively Bocock (Editor), Bocock Robert (Editor), Stuart Hall (Editor), Stuart (Open University) Hall (Editor), Kenneth Thompson (Editor), Kenneth (Both Open University) Thompson (Editor)
• Publisher: Wiley & Sons
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1992
• EAN: 9780745609645
• ISBN: 978-0-7456-0964-5
• No. of pages: 496
• Series: Understanding Modern Societies; Understanding Modern Societies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology