modernity and social movements

Social inclusion, social movements, and the characteristics of late modernity

In discussing the ideology of social inclusion, this paper demonstrates that the composition of community groups in a period of late modernity is worthy of consideration. Although it would appear, on the surface at least, that previously stable community institutions, such as family, organised religion, trade unions, occupational workplaces, residential neighbourhoods, and so on, are being chal...

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Phenomenology and Post-Modernity

Social Change and Modernity Edited By Hans Haferkamp and Neil

Craniofacial Feminization, Social Tolerance, and the Origins of Behavioral Modernity

Cannibalism and bulimia: Patterns of social control in late modernity

The transition from the modern world of the postwar period into late modernity involves a movement from an inclusive to an exclusive society. This is concomitant with a change in tolerance from a society which abhors difference and attempts to reform difficulty to one which celebrates difference and attempts to exclude the difficult. Two motifs of exclusion coexist uneasily in late modernity, t...