Trust in Modern Societies: The Search for the Bases of Social Order - Image 1

£45.00

Polity Trust in Modern Societies: The Search for the Bases of Social Order

Name: Trust in Modern Societies: The Search for the Bases of Social Order
Brand: Polity
Price: 45.0 GBP
Availability: InStock

Anthropology & Sociology

Price History & Forecast

Last 42 days • 42 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 42 days • 1 price levels

Days at Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £45 (42 days, 100.0%)

Price range: £45 - £45

Price levels: 1 different prices over 42 days

Description

This study deals with one of the most important problems facing modern societies - the question of social cohesion. The author offers a comprehensive overview of past and present theories about the role of trust as a means of creating solidarity. She shows how in sociological debates, which run from the founding fathers to the critics of mass society, social order and solidarity were assumed to be self-evident goods emerging in a spontaneous way. The re-invention of the notion of civil society, the adoption of postmodern and post-industrial perspectives and the renewed denunciations of the dangers of modern individualism have given the notion of trust a new importance as the site where the contradictions of modernity are resolved. The book discusses that view and argues that changes in contemporary societies are simultaneously making the construction of trust both more urgent and more difficult. Although the principal focus is on Western democracies, there is a strong comparative emphasis with reference to Eastern and Central European societies. They offer particularly instructive illustrations of both the necessity and difficulty of generating a social order based on trust. The book should be useful reading for second-year undergraduates and above in the fields of social theory, political theory and political sociology.

Product Specifications

Brand: Polity
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0745612482
Category: Books > Subjects > Biography > Medical, Legal & Social Sciences > Anthropology & Sociology
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 05 March 1996
Listed Since: 17 October 2006

Barcode

No barcode data available

Polity Trust in Modern Societies: The Search for the Bases of Social Order

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Problem of Trust

States of Solidarity: How to Build a Society

Trust, Organizations and the Digital Economy: Theory and Practice (Routledge Advances in Management and Business Studies)

Routledge Myth and Solidarity in the Modern World - Book

Socialization: Key Concepts

What is Political Sociology? (What is Sociology?)

The Individual After Modernity: A Sociological Perspective (Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought)

Political Sociology for a Globalizing World

Trust: Reason, Routine, Reflexivity

The Trouble with Trust: The Dynamics of Interpersonal Trust Building

Trust: How Citizens View Political Institutions

A Sociology of Modernity: Liberty and Discipline

Belonging: Solidarity and Division in Modern Societies

The End of Illusions: Politics, Economy, and Culture in Late Modernity

Sociological Theory: From Comte to Postcolonialism

Outcome-Based Cooperation: In Communities, Business, Regulation, and Dispute Resolution (Civil Justice Systems)

Political Communication and Social Theory

Contemporary Social and Political Theory

Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series)

Democracy and Trust

Social Theory and Modernity

International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order: Beyond International Relations Theory?

International Relations, Political Theory and the Problem of Order: Beyond International Relations Theory?

Muslims, Trust and Multiculturalism: New Directions (Palgrave Politics of Identity and Citizenship Series)