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The Social and Cultural Forms of Modernity
Understanding Modern Societies, Book III
Kenneth Thompson (Edited by), Robert Bocock (Edited by), Stuart Hall (Edited by)
9780745609645, Polity Press
Paperback / softback, published 11 June 1992
496 pages
25 x 10 x 1.5 cm, 1.191 kg
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.
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
Subject Areas: Sociology & anthropology [JH]
