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Originally in 1978, this important work, by one of the leading European social theorists, is arguably the best introduction to the hermeneutic tradition as a whole. It is designed to help students of sociology and philosophy place the problems of "understanding social science" in their historical and philosophical context. It does so by presenting the major current in sociological thought as responses to the challenge of hermeneutics. The idea that true knowledge of social life can be attained only if human conduct is seen as meaningful action whose meaning is accordingly grasped has been...

Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) gilt als einer der bedeutendsten Soziologen der Gegenwart, sein Werk wurde vielfach ausgezeichnet. Die Verwerfungen des 20. Jahrhunderts - Krieg, Antisemitismus, Flucht und Emigration - prägten sein Leben. Fragmente meines Lebens verbindet Briefe an seine Töchter und andere Texte mit autobiografischem Charakter zu einer fesselnden Erzählung über Baumans Leben, die erstmals auch tiefe Einblicke in das Privatleben des großen Soziologen gewährt.

»Das erste Leben ist vergänglich. Das zweite - das erzählte - bleibt; und diese Form des Seins ist...

'Today the smallest details of our daily lives are tracked and traced more closely than ever before, and those who are monitored often cooperate willingly with the monitors. From London and New York to New Delhi, Shanghai and Rio de Janeiro, video cameras are a familiar and accepted sight in public places. Air travel now commonly involves devices such as body-scanners and biometric checks that have proliferated in the wake of 9/11. And every day Google and credit-card issuers note the details of our habits, concerns and preferences, quietly prompting customized marketing strategies with...

The test they need to pass in order to acquire the social prizes they covet requires them to recast themselves as products capable of drawing attention...

From one of today's most eminent thinkers--a piercing examination of poverty in the modern age

If "being poor" once derived its meaning from the condition of being unemployed, today it draws its meaning primarily from the plight of a flawed consumer. This distinction truly makes a difference in the way poverty is experienced and in the chances to redeem its misery.

This absorbing book traces this change, and makes an inventory of its social consequences. It also considers ways of fighting back advancing poverty and mitigating its hardships, and tackles the problems of poverty in its...