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Zygmunt Bauman: Personal reflections within the mainstream of modernity.
- Source :
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British Journal of Sociology . Jun98, Vol. 49 Issue 2, p311. 10p. - Publication Year :
- 1998
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Abstract
- In this paper I outline some of the key ideas within Zygmunt Bauman's sociology; both in terms of his contribution to the creation of a postmodern sociology and his substantive texts. The critique that I develop, is that Bauman's work is assembled upon a modernist notion of `the social' which he not only accepts without question, but which undermines his attempts to devise a distinctly postmodern sociology. His substantive texts still contain many personal insights, but they need not make any use of postmodernist abstractions, which in the last analysis provide little more than a gloss over his own reflections on the world. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00071315
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 803292
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.2307/591316