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The consequences of modernity

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Stanford Stanford University Press 1990Description: ix, 186 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9780745609232
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 303.44GID
Summary: In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, "As a first approximation, let us simply say the following: 'modernity' refers to modes of social life or organization which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and which subsequently became more or less worldwide in their influence."
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Based on the Raymond Fred West memorial lectures which the author delivered at Stanford University in April 1988.

In this major theoretical statement, the author offers a new and provocative interpretation of institutional transformations associated with modernity. What is modernity? The author suggests, "As a first approximation, let us simply say the following: 'modernity' refers to modes of social life or organization which emerged in Europe from about the seventeenth century onwards and which subsequently became more or less worldwide in their influence."

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