{"product_id":"new-paradigm-for-understanding-todays-world-isbn-9780745636726","title":"New Paradigm for Understanding Today's World","description":"\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eTouraine is one of the leading social thinkers in the world today and many of his books have been published in English.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIn this book Touraine presents a new theoretical framework for understanding the contemporary world. It is a broad theoretical work which seeks to make sense of everyday experience at the beginning of the 21st century.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThis is a major new theoretical work by one of the leading sociologists in the world today.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA great reference book for those studying sociology and social theory at any level.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction: A New Paradigm\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart One: When We Referred to Ourselves in Social Terms\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e1 The Break\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9\/11\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFear\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA world in decline\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhere is meaning to be found?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e2 Globalization\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom the post-war states to the globalization of the economy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn extreme capitalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rupturing of societies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAlter-globalism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom society to war\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA globalized world\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e3 Europe: A State without a Nation\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe decline of the national state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIs European unity possible?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe EU and the USA\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe European state\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEuropean powerlessness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe absence of a European consciousness\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e4 The End of Societies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe social representation of societies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe European mode of modernization\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSociety and modernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe crisis of representation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe three deaths of European society\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe irruption of democracy\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe return of the political\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFarewell to society\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe war above us\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhen system and actors separate off\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe rupturing of the social bond\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre we witnessing the end of social movements?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e5 Revisiting the Self\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eWhat is modernity?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe victory of modernity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe end of social thinking\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmancipatory individualism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eForms of social determinism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom focusing on the world to focusing on the self\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe awakening of the subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart Two: Now that We Refer to Ourselves in Cultural Terms\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e6 The Subject\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe subject and identity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSources of the subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDefence of sociology\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe individual subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRights\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAre we all subjects?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe negation of the subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA related note\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe subject, social movements and the unconscious\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProximity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe subject and religion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe subject and the school\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe experience of being a subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe anti-subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBetween gods and societies\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e7 Cultural Rights\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePolitical rights and cultural rights\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMinorities, multiculturalism, communitarianism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRedistribution and recognition\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe new social movements\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eModernizations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEntry into the post-social world\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexual rights\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe limits of cultural mixing\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbout the ‘veil’\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eCommunities and communitarianisms\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLiberals and communitarians\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSecularism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInter-cultural communication\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReturn to new ideas\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e8 A Society of Women\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn altered situation\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEquality and difference\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSexuality and gender\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe woman-subject\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe role of men\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePost-feminism\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Argument: By Way of Conclusion\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBibliography\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eName Index\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index\u003c\/p\u003e  \"How rare it is that one of the world's most original social theorists writes a book so plain and important that it could be used as an introductory text for first-year students. Alain Touraine's New Paradigm should be required reading for anyone who wants to understand today's world as it is coming to be.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCharles Lemert, Wesleyan University\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eA.Touraine\u003c\/b\u003e, Director, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eTranslated by \u003cb\u003eG.Elliot\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  In the first centuries of modernization in the West, the social world was described and thought of in terms of politics: order and disorder, king and country, the people and revolution. In the wake of the industrial revolution, capitalism freed itself from political power and gave birth to another paradigm, one that was both economic and social. We began to speak in terms of class and inequality, wages and strikes, wealth and its redistribution. \u003cp\u003eToday, in the age of a global economy and the triumph of the individual, globalization has shattered these old models of society. Each of us, caught up in processes of production and mass culture, strives to escape from them and to make ourselves the subject of our own lives. The new paradigm through which we try to make sense of these new preoccupations is cultural. The great questions of our age bear witness to this: how should we protect the rights of minorities? Should sexuality be placed at the centre of our lives? Are we witnessing a return to religion?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe old paradigms were oriented towards conquering the world; the new paradigm revolves around us. Just as we are faced with the breakdown of a world once run by men, we are now entering into a society of women.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs ever in the writings of Alain Touraine, the concern to give theoretical form to our social practices is nourished by life as it is actually lived, and everything thought through here refers back to the most everyday experiences of the globalized world in which we are currently living.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis book will be of primary interest to advanced undergraduates, graduates and\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989687976165,"sku":"NP9780745636726","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780745636726.jpg?v=1761785109","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/new-paradigm-for-understanding-todays-world-isbn-9780745636726","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}