This article connects the contemporary crisis of modernity to the crisis of the Welfare State in the West and to its so … far incomplete establishment in 'Latin'-America, with special reference to Brazil. The reflexivisation of modernity is …

minority political groups; (ii) destabilises notions of the body in modernity and related to that point (iii) engages in a … \'hidden\' impulse of modernity, that of self-sacrifice. …

, Simmel, Parks, and Jacobs into understanding the experience of modernity and city life by taking to the streets and directly …

contemporary modernity(ies). At the macro-theoretical level, some chapters discuss the bases for a comparative sociology, in an … modernity”. In this confrontation new configurations arise, as does a type of interaction between the different regions of world … dynamic of modernity in diverse contexts, as well as in different fields of social life. …

theoretical accounts of nationalism that stress the political character and emplhasise its inherent modernity. The authors will …

problematise the tradition/modernity binary that too often organises the writing of the history of 20th century Malayalee society …

Innovation lies at the heart of modernity. During the first (proto) modernity, it was the fact of ?ingenious? persons … innovations. The third modernity is a rupture in the vision of innovation. It is now the fact of very small businesses, the so …

of modernity tended to portray a secular trend toward the triumph of rationalized social order centered in diachronic … modernity through the articulation of rationalized diachronic time with the sacred strategic time of apocalyptically framed … 'holy war.' Overall, the 'empire of modernity' is a hybrid formation that bridges diachronic and strategic temporalities …

modernity and liberalism, especially what some researchers call “postmodernity”. …