The plurality of modernity
Subtitle: decentring sociology
By: Sérgio Costa ... [et al.] (eds.).
Contributors: Domingues, José Maurício; Knöbl, Wolfgang, 1963-; Silva, Josué Pereira da
Edition: 1. Aufl.
Series: Zentrum und Peripherie -- Bd. 3
Publisher: Rainer Hampp Verlag
Published: 2006
Place of publication: München; Mering
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9783866180888
Subjects: Sociology; Congresses; Globalization; Cultural pluralism; Modern Civilization; Multiculturalism; Political sociology
Description: Starting from two different planes of analysis, this volume contributes to recent debates on the character of contemporary modernity(ies). At the macro-theoretical level, some chapters discuss the bases for a comparative sociology, in an emphatic sense, i.e., a sociology that deals with the complex and difficult articulation between the spreading of "modern" structures and forms of life from a few centres, and regional movements of recodification and reaction to advances of "western modernity". In this confrontation new configurations arise, as does a type of interaction between the different regions of world society, which paradoxically removes from the presumed original centers their monopoly over the production of modern structures, signs and forms of life. At the empirical level, the book researches concrete features assumed by such a decentering dynamic of modernity in diverse contexts, as well as in different fields of social life.
Notes: Papers presented at the two International conferences held in Berlin, Germany and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Includes bibliographical references.