Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 From Modernity to Postmodernity?; Chapter 3 High Culture/Mass Culture and the Experience of Late Modernity; Chapter 4 Modernity and Lifestyle in the Japanese City; Chapter 5 Natural Being/Social Being; Chapter 6 Modernity and the Self; Chapter 7 Hierarchy, ‘Group’ and Individual; Chapter 8 Social Theory and the Part icularities of Asian Modernity;