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1	Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order more books like this by Professor Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens, Scott Lash add to wishlist The theme of reflexivity has come to be central to social analysis. In this book three prominent social thinkers discuss the implications of 'reflexive modernization' for social and cultural theory today. Ulrich Beck's vision of the 'risk society' has already become extraordinarily influential. He offers a new elaboration of his basic ideas, ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $24.41!
2	Modernity and Identity more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist Modernity and Identity is a groundbreaking collective work which announces a radical new departure within contemporary debates on modernism and postmodernism. While dominant conceptions of both modernism and postmodernism are centered around motions of statis and fixity, for most of the otherwise quite diverse writers in this book, modernity is a ... see all copies from $6.00! new only from $22.72! \| SVS
3	Risk, Environment and Modernity: Towards a New Ecology more books like this by Scott Lash (Editor), Mr. Bronislaw Szerszynski (Editor), Professor Brian Wynne (Editor) add to wishlist This wide-ranging and accessible contribution to the study of risk, ecology and environment helps us to understand the politics of ecology and the place of social theory in making sense of environmental issues. The book provides insights into the complex dynamics of change in 'risk societies'. see all copies from $37.67! new only from $37.67! \| SVS
4	Sociology of Postmodernism more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist What does postmodernism mean? And why is the debate around it central to understanding life today? This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Written by a noted scholar in the field, it considers the differences between modernism and postmodernism, describes the historical and social context ... see all copies from $16.10! new only from $34.98! \| first editions
5	Another Modernity: A Different Rationality more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist This book is Lash's most comprehensive statement in social and cultural theory. It is a book addressed to sociologists and philosophers, to students of urban life, modern languages, cultural studies and the visual arts.Alongside the Enlightenment has emerged another modernity. This second modernity has - in opposition to the Enlightenment ... see all copies from $14.52! new only from $48.63! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Global Modernities more books like this by Professor Mike Featherstone (Editor), Scott Lash (Editor), Professor Roland Robertson (Editor) add to wishlist Global Modernities is a sustained commentary on the international character of the most microcosmic practices. It demonstrates how the global increasingly informs the regional, so deconstructing ideas like the 'nation state' and 'national sovereignty'. The spatialization of social theory, hybridization and bio-politics are among the critical ... see all copies from $45.98! new only from $45.98! \| SVS
7	The End of Organised Capitalism more books like this by Scott Lash, John Urry add to wishlist This work argues that - despite Marx's and Weber's insistence that capitalist societies become increasingly more ordered - we now live in an era of "disorganized capitalism". The book is devoted to a systematic examination of disorganized capitalism in five Western nations (Britain, the USA, France, West Germany and Sweden). Through the analysis ... see all copies from $15.67! new only from $39.83! \| first editions
8	Economies of Signs & Space more books like this by Scott Lash, John Urry add to wishlist This is a novel account of social change that supplants conventional understandings of 'society' and presents a sociology that takes as its main unit of analysis flows through time and across space. Developing a comparative analysis of the UK and US, the new Germany and Japan, Lash and Urry show how restructuration after organized capitalism has ... see all copies from $37.82! new only from $40.80! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Global Culture Industries: The Mediation of Things more books like this by Scott Lash, Dr. Celia Lury add to wishlist In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a commodity. Now, in what they call the 'global culture industry', Scott Lash and Celia Lury argue that Adorno's worst nightmares have come true. Their new book ... see all copies from $21.47! new only from $21.47!
10	Time and Value more books like this by Scott Lash (Editor), Andrew Quick (Editor), Richard Roberts (Editor) add to wishlist This ground-breaking book addresses transformations in the understanding of time and the generation and degeneration of value at the cutting edge of modernity and postmodernity. The book is a multi-disciplinary contribution to current work in the social sciences, in cultural theory and in more pragmatic areas such as advertising and global ... see all copies from $13.00! new only from $30.00!
11	Detraditionalization more books like this by Paul Heelas (Editor), Paul Morris (Editor), Scott Lash (Editor) add to wishlist This collective volume contributes to a growing debate concerning the extent to which we are now living in a 'post-traditional' world. One standard account - most forcefully maintained by post-modernists - is that time has moved on to a point where we are now beyond the injunctions of the past. Yet such claims are increasingly being subjected to ... see all copies from $37.08! new only from $46.61! \| SVS
12 view cover	Spaces of Culture: City, Nation, World more books like this by Professor Mike Featherstone (Editor), Scott Lash (Editor) add to wishlist In Spaces of Culture an international group of scholars examines the implications of questions such as: What is culture? What is the relationship between social structure and culture in a globalized and networked world? Do critical perspectives still apply, or does the speed and complexity of cultural production demand new forms of analysis? They ... see all copies from $38.50! new only from $38.50! \| SVS
13	The Penguin's Put-Downs: Jokes and Riddles by Scott Franklin, And Lash, Batton add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Detraditionalization more books like this by Scott Lash (Editor), Paul Morris (Editor), Paul Heelas (Editor) add to wishlist This collective volume contributes to a growing debate concerning the extent to which we are now living in a 'post-traditional' world. One standard account - most forcefully maintained by post-modernists - is that time has moved on to a point where we are now beyond the injunctions of the past. Yet such claims are increasingly being subjected to ... see all copies from $95.69! new only from $95.69! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Recognition and Difference: Politics, Identity, Multiculture more books like this by Scott Lash (Editor), Professor Mike Featherstone (Editor) add to wishlist Are there any cultural universals left? Does multiculturalism inevitably involve a slide into moral relativism? This timely and insightful book examines questions of politics and identity in the age of multicultures. It draws together the contribution of outstanding contributors such as Fraser, Honneth, O'Neill, Bauman, Lister, Gilroy and De Swann ... see all copies from $120.05! new only from $120.05!
16 view cover	Global Culture Industry: The Mediation of Things more books like this by Scott Lash, Dr. Celia Lury add to wishlist In the first half of the twentieth century, Theodor Adorno wrote about the 'culture industry'. For Adorno, culture too along with the products of factory labour was increasingly becoming a commodity. Now, in what they call the 'global culture industry', Scott Lash and Celia Lury argue that Adorno's worst nightmares have come true. Their new book ... see all copies from $72.32! new only from $72.32! \| SVS
17	Max Weber, Rationality and Modernity more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist see all copies from $13.08!
18	Reflexive Modernisierung. Eine Kontroverse by Anthony Giddens Ulrich Beck, Scott Lash add to wishlist see all copies from $22.14! new only from $40.46!
19	Economias de Signos y Espacios - Capitalismo de La more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist see all copies from $49.50! new only from $49.50!
20 view cover	Critica de La Informacion more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist see all copies from $48.90! new only from $48.91!
21 view cover	Critique of Information more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist This penetrating book raises questions about how power operates in contemporary society. It explains how the speed of information flows has eroded the separate space needed for critical reflection. It argues that there is no longer an 'outside' to the global flows of communication and that the critique of information must take place within the ... see all copies from $43.17! new only from $45.08!
22 view cover	The end of organized capitalism more books like this by Scott Lash, John Urry (Photographer) add to wishlist This work argues that - despite Marx's and Weber's insistence that capitalist societies become increasingly more ordered - we now live in an era of "disorganized capitalism". The book is devoted to a systematic examination of disorganized capitalism in five Western nations (Britain, the USA, France, West Germany and Sweden). Through the analysis ... see all copies from $4.27! new only from $23.23! \| SVS
23	The Militant Worker: Class and Radicalism in France and America more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist This is a consummately polemical yet ultimately plausible endeavor to recast our theoretical, empirical, and historical understanding of social class. The author demonstrates that neither technology, nor skill, nor wage level is the prime determinant of militancy. Instead it is ideological and organizational forms. see all copies from $2.23! signed copies
24	Sociologia del Posmodernismo more books like this by Scott Lash add to wishlist see all copies from $193.57! new only from $193.57!

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