Papers from a 1993 conference organized by the Centre for the Study of Cultural Values at Lancaster University. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: detraditionalization and its rivals / Paul Heelas -- Individualization and PĚ€recarious freedoms': perspectives and controversies of a subject-orientated sociology / Ulrich Bech and Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim -- Morality in the age of contingency / Zygmunt Bauman -- Complexity, structural contingencies and value conflicts / Niklas Luhmann -- The privatization of religion and morality / Thomas Luchmann -- Tradition and self in a mediated world / John B. Thompson -- Identity, meaning and globalization: detraditionalization in postmodern space-time compression / Timothy W. Luke -- Detraditionalization and the certainty of uncertain futures / Barbara Adam -- Detraditionalization, character and the limits to agency / Colin Campbell -- The foreigner / Richard Sennett -- On things not being worse, and the ethic of humanity / Paul Heelas -- Community beyond tradition / Paul Morris -- Tradition and the limits of difference / Scott Lash -- Databases as discourse, or electronic interpellations / Mark Poster -- Authority and the genealogy of subjectivity.
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