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Reflexive modernization

Ulrich Beck

1994225 pagesabout 3–5 hours
1994
first published
  • 1994Polity Press · 225 pages · ENGISBN 9780745612775

Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.

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