Michel Maffesoli's Sociology of Modernity and Postmodernity
An Introduction and Critical Assessment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3408497 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Evans (0000-0001-7258-3485, St Mary's University College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1997 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 220-243 |
| Publication date | 1997-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1467-954x.00062 |
| OpenAlex | W1997053921 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 19 |
| References cited | 18 |
This article introduces and criticises Michel Maffesoli's attempt to formulate a post-modern sociology for post-modern times. While arguing that Maffesoli's sociology is suggestive and insightful about many aspects and features of late-modern life this article, nonetheless, questions whether Maffesoli's approach should be accepted as a fruitful sociological paradigm which others should take up uncritically. Moreover, it will be argued that Maffesoli's approach is an ultimately incoherent and one-sided approach to studying the 'postmodern condition' in that it does not escape the problem of 'performative contradiction' identified by the likes of Habermas, Giddens and Touraine. That is to say, Maffesoli has produced a one-sided and flattened out image of modernity that cannot account for the possibility of social and political critique
Contradiction · Critical theory · Epistemology · Late modernity · Michel foucault · Modernity · Performative utterance · Politics · Postmodernism · Postmodernity · Social science · Sociological research · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Emile Durkheim and Sociology · French Urban and Social Studies · Law · Philosophy
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Localism at New Zealand surfing destinations
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Alternative Cultural Heterotopia and the Liminoid Body
History, culture and practice of puppy play
The ‘pleasure citizen’
De la politique néotribale
Risk, trust and knowledge networks in farmers’ learning
A critique of serious leisure as theory
What makes conversations about death with strangers enjoyable? Applying a neo-tribal lens to the Death Café interaction
Alternative Cultural Heterotopia and the Liminoid Body
Modernity and the Emotions
Health as moral performance
Rural Communities and Well-Being
Introduction to Michel Maffesoli's 'from Society to Tribal Communities
Towards an Immature Sociology
Civilised Tribalism
Autonomous geographies of recreational running in Sofia, Bulgaria
The Case for 'Everyday Politics
Schopenhauer and Nietzsche
The Predicament of Culture
Distinction
Modernity and ambivalence
Legislators and Interpreters
The Philosophical Discourse of Modernity
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Intimations of Postmodernity
The Shadow of Dionysus
A Sociology of Modernity
We Have Never Been Modern
Risk society
The condition of postmodernity
The Life and Times of Post-Modernity
Sociability/'Sociality
The Sociology of Everyday Life (Epistemological Elements)
| Unique citing works | 19 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,68 |
| Citation span | 1998 - 2024 (27) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |