Book cover for Modernity and Its Futures: Understanding Modern Societies, Book IV by Anthony McGrew, Stuart Hall and David Held

Modernity and Its Futures

Understanding Modern Societies, Book IV

Anthony McGrew
Stuart Hall
David Held
1992 Released
408 Pages
6-9 Hours
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Polity PressISBN 9780745609669
Modernity and its Futures is a major introductory textbook which examines the forces reshaping modern industrial societies and the new patterns, structures and relationships that are emerging in the contemporary world. The key debates about these changes are introduced and critically discussed; they include the transformation of Eastern Europe, the collapse of the USSR, globalisation, environmental challenges, post industrialism, cultural change and post-modernism. The book also looks back to the formation of modern societies, and of social science, to explore the character of 'modernity' and the relationship between 'early-modern' and 'post-modern' societies, and assess whether the paradigms and theories used to analyse 'modern' societies are adequate for social formations today.

Designed as an introduction to modern societies and modern sociological analyses, this book is of value to students on a wide variety of social science courses in universities and colleges, and also for readers with no prior knowledge of sociology. Selected readings from major social theorists are integrated into each chapter, together with student questions and exercises.

Anthony McGrew

Chris Armstrong, Momoh Banya, Andrew Mason, Derek McGee, Tony McGrew, David Owen, Clare Saunders, Graham Smith and Gerry Stoker are all based at the Centre for Citizenship, Governance and Globalization at the University of Southampton, UK

Stuart Hall

Stuart Hall was born in Kingston, Jamaica and educated at Oxford University. A pioneering cultural theorist, campaigner, and founding editor of the New Left Review, Hall was one of the most influential and adventurous thinkers of the last half century. He was Director of the University of Birmingham's Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies from 1972, and from 1979 was Professor of Sociology at the Open University. His published work includes The Popular Arts (1964), the co-authored volume Policing the Crisis (1978), The Hard Road to Renewal: Thatcherism and the Crisis of the Left (1988), and his posthumous memoir Familiar Stranger (2017).

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