The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity

by Martin Albrow

Book Overview

Taking issue with those who see recent social transformations as an extension of modernity, the author contends that social theory must confront an epochal change from the modern era to a new era of globality, in which human beings can conceive of forces at work on a global scale, and in which they espouse values that take the globe as their reference point.

The book begins by assessing the problems of writing about modernity, showing how narratives...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804728704
• ISBN13: 9780804728706
• Release Date: December 1996
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"