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A number of Social Theorists (Beck 1992, Giddens 1991, Lash 1990) critique the idea that some contemporary societies have moved into a new stage of development or Postmodernity . On Technological and Social Change s since the 1960s, the concept of "late modernity" proposes that contemporary societies are a clear continuation of Modern institutional transitions and cultural developments.

Anthony Giddens doesn't dispute that important changes have occurred, but he says that we haven't really gone beyond modernity. It's just a developed, radicalized, 'late' modernity - but still modernity, not postmodernity.

Zygmunt Bauman who introduced the concept of liquid modernity wrote that its characteristics are the privatisation of Ambivalence and increasing feelings of uncertainity. It is a kind of chaotic continuation of modernity.


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  • Bauman, Zygmunt , ''Liquid Modernity''. Cambridge: Polity Press ISBN 074562409X

  • Beck, Ulrich , Anthony Giddens and Scott Lash . 1994.''Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order''. Blackwell.

  • Beck, Ulrich. 1992. ''Risk Society''. SAGE Publications.

  • Giddens, Anthony. 1991. ''The Consequences of Modernity''. Stanford University Press.

  • Lash, Scott. 1990. ''The Sociology of Postmodernism''. Routledge.