Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order

by Ulrich Beck

Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.

Genres: Sociology, Philosophy, Nonfiction, Theory

Paperback

First published September 1, 1994

About the author

Ulrich Beck was a German sociologist. He coined the term risk society and was a professor of Sociology at Munich University and the London School of Economics.

Reviews

[A. Cox · Rating 4 out of 5]

Scott Lash's section in this book is an excellent interpretation of the work of three of the key thinkers on agency and structure in late modernity--Giddens, Beck and Bourdieu. Lash, without being too reductionist, examines the role of reflexivity in their work, contrasts the work on 'structuration' by Giddens and Bourdieu, and posits his own notion of 'aesthetic reflexivity,' rooted in thinkers like Benjamin and Adorno.

[Heli Miranda ahumada · Rating 5 out of 5]

Gran libro.