Confusion reigns in sociological accounts of the current condition of modernity: from the end of the subject to a new individualism; from the dissolution of society to the re-emergence of civil society; from the end of modernity to an other modernity to neo-modernization. This book offers a sociology of modernity in terms of an historical account of social transformations over the past two centuries, focusing on Western Europe but also looking at the USA and at Soviet socialism as distinct variants of modernity. A fundamental ambivalence of modernity is captured by the double notion of...
Confusion reigns in sociological accounts of the current condition of modernity: from the end of the subject to a new individualism; from the dissolut...
Modern social sciences have, over the past forty years, been committed to the improvement of public policy. More recently, however, doubts have arisen about the possibility and desirability of a policy-oriented social science. In this book, leading specialists in the field analyze both the development and failings of policy-oriented social science. In contrast to other writings on the subject, this volume presents a distinctively historical and comparative approach. By looking at earlier periods, the contributors demonstrate how policy orientation has been central to the emergence and...
Modern social sciences have, over the past forty years, been committed to the improvement of public policy. More recently, however, doubts have arisen...
