Latin America and Contemporary Modernity: A Sociological Interpretation

ISBN-13: 9780415512923 / Angielski / MiÄ™kka / 2011 / 210 str.

Domingues, José Maurício

Opis

Renowned author Jose Mauricio Domingues places Latin America within the third phase of global modern civilisation and offers a general theoretical approach to contemporary Latin America."

Spis treści

Introduction  1. Law, Rights and Justice  2. Development, Globalization and the Search for Alternatives  3. Identities and Domination, Solidarity and Projects.  Conclusion

O autorze

Dominguez is Executive Director of Rio de Janeiro University Research Institute (IUPERJ) and a member of the International Editorial Board of The European Journal of Social Theory. He has published extensively on social and sociological theory and on the sociology of modernity and Latin America; books include: Sociological Theory and Collective Subjectivity (1995), Social Creativity, Collective Subjectivity and Contemporary Modernity (2000), Do ocidente à modernidade. Intelectuais e mudança social (2003), Estudos de sociologia (2004), Modernity Reconstructed (2006), and Aproximações à América Latina (2007).