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Modernity differs from all preceding forms of social. Drawing on a therapeutic text selftherapy by janette rainwater giddens selects ten features which are distinctive about the search for selfidentity in the late modern age. The text presents and analyses manifestations of modernity and postmodernity in the field of competitive and recreational sport, physical education, leisure, and tourism. Building on the ideas set out in the authors the consequences of modernity, this book focuses on the self and the emergence of new mechanisms of selfidentity that are shaped byyet also shapethe institutions of modernity. Modernity and selfidentity introduction modernity changes our social life and our inworld experiences.
Building upon the ideas set out in the consequences of modernity, giddens argues that high or late modernity is a post traditional order characterised by a developed institutional reflexivity. View or download all the content the society has access to. Modernity differs from all preceding forms of social order because of its dynamism, its deep undercutting of traditional habits and customs, and its global impact. In the current period, the globalising tendencies of modern institutions are accompanied by a. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read liquid modernity. This and other challenges of life in a liquidmodern society are traced and unravelled in the successive chapters of this new book by one.
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