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ISBN10: 113852848X
ISBN13: 9781138528482
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 20 2017
Pages: 282
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

How may we characterize contemporary society in a world so complex? Can looking at the diverse paths followed by various cultures in the modern world generate useful new social scientific typologies, or must a different set of questions be posed in this era of globalization? What is the nature of modernity? These are some of the questions addressed

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