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Difference and Modernity by Clammer (1995, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherTaylor & Francis Group
ISBN-100710305079
ISBN-139780710305077
eBay Product ID (ePID)367278
Product Key Features
Number of Pages152 Pages
Publication NameDifference and Modernity
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1995
SubjectEthnic Studies / General, Asia / Japan, Sociology / General, Regional Studies, Anthropology / General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaSocial Science, History
AuthorClammer
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight15.7 Oz
Item Length9.2 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN94-044931
Table Of ContentChapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 From Modernity to Postmodernity?; Chapter 3 High Culture/Mass Culture and the Experience of Late Modernity; Chapter 4 Modernity and Lifestyle in the Japanese City; Chapter 5 Natural Being/Social Being; Chapter 6 Modernity and the Self; Chapter 7 Hierarchy, 'Group' and Individual; Chapter 8 Social Theory and the Part icularities of Asian Modernity;
SynopsisFirst Published in 1995. The question of 'postmodernity' that has swept Western academic and intellectual circles raises critical comparative questions. Do societies that have not experienced the same historical development as the West pass inevitably through modernity into postmodernity, or can they skip such stages altogether? Japan, the only non-Western society to develop independently a fully-fledged capitalist-industrialist economy, poses such fundamental questions to social theory. Is Japan in fact 'unique' and as such is it a society which escapes the net of conventional sociological abstractions? The book questions how special Japanese society really is, the limitations of Western social theory in grasping the fullness of this dynamic and a complex Asian society, and inquires as to how Japan in turn may speak to social theory and deepen and broaden the principles on which social theory attempts to explore and categorize the social and cultural worlds.
LC Classification NumberHN723.5.C63 1995
