America’s Safest City is a must read for anyone concerned with issues of delinquency, juvenile justice, and suburban youth. In the book, Singer presents his theory of delinquency and modernity, offering a truly fresh perspective on the sources of delinquency in contemporary American society. There are so many things to like about this book: it introduces a new theoretical perspective; it direct...

The article is devoted to the analysis of peculiarities control practices in situation «liquid modernity». metaphor panopticon proposed by M. Foucault taken as a starting point. characteristic features digital infrastructure social are considered. Features banoptic and synoptic logic tracking post-panoptic forms shown. flexibility variability made possible latest technologies testify specifical...

When modern society marches toward post-modern society, people are still experiencing the same alienation and spiritual impoverishment as in Yeats’ times. It’s known that both modernity aesthetic tradition embodied poems. Previous studies, however, have tried to interpret each individually, usually combining theories convenient their purposes, but seldom intend include when studying poetry. Thr...

This paper looks at healing performances as ethnographic expressions of local knowledge and culture embedded within the Malay psyche and gemeinschaft. As society develops and progresses, these healing performances are caught within conflicting trajectories which become compounded by the contestations of tradition, religious concerns, locality and modernity. As exemplifications of the Malay etho...

Only in the context of international debate about economic development after Second World War did the term infrastructure become a label for the technical-political systems required for growth and modernity. This chapter traces the intellectual and institutional roots of the category of infrastructure in the development debates of the 1950s: its affinity with the earlier idea of social overhead...

The purpose of this article is to explain in religious, secular, and post-secular contexts the functional potential conceptualizing miracle as a text or message with motivational effect. Theoretical basis. Max Weber, Ernst Tugendhat, Alexander Geppert Till Kössler analysed processes enchantment disenchantment world on philosophical representatives Frankfurt school (Theodor Adorno, Horkheimer, W...

The notion that religion and modemity ate mutuaUy exclusive has been a leading theme oŸ the sociology of religion in France and has been amply confirmed by empirical studies of religious practice, clerical vocations, and parish culture. But recent work on popular religion, post-1968 ideological communities, and new religious movements has caUed the presumption of secularization into question. I...