Sociological Theory, 6/e

Contemporary Theories of Modernity

Chapter 16 Chapter Outline

Classical Theorists on Modernity
The Juggernaut of Modernity
1. Biographical Sketch: Anthony Giddens
2. Modernity and its Consequences
3. Modernity and Identity
4. Modernity and Intimacy
The Risk Society
1. Creating the Risks
2. Coping with Risks
McDonaldization and the New Means of Consumption
1. McDonaldization
2. The New Means of Consumption
  1. Efficiency
  2. Calculability
  3. Predictability
  4. Control through Nonhuman Rather than Human Technology
Modernity and the Holocaust
1. A Product of Modernity
2. The Role of Bureaucracy
3. The Holocaust and McDonaldization
Modernity's Unfinished Project
1. Biographical Sketch: Jurgen Habermas
2. Habermas versus Postmodernists
Informationalism and the Network Society
Globalization Theory
1. Kellner's Neo-Marxian Perspective on Globalization
2. Giddens on the "Runaway World" of Globalization
3. Beck and the Politics of Globalization
4. Bauman and the Human Consequences of Globalization
5. Ritzer on the "Globalization of Nothing"
6. Appadurai's "Landscapes"
Summary

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