In search of second modernity

Reinterpreting Reflexive Modernization in the Context of Multiple Modernities

Bibliographic Data

ID3066472
AuthorsRebecca L Lee (0000-0001-8407-4565, corresponding author), Raymond L M Lee
Year2008
Volume47
Issue1
Pages55-69
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSocial Science Information (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0539-0184 • E-ISSN: 1461-7412
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0539018407085749
OpenAlexW2103273512
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited19

Ulrich Beck's contention that first modernity has metamorphosed into second or reflexive modernity is an attempt at explaining social change in Europe at the meta-level. This explanation involves raising the issues of contingency and boundaries to distinguish second from first modernity. A critique of these issues and their assumptions suggests an attempt to reinvent modernity without considering its shifting centre. It is argued that second modernity cannot be discussed in isolation from developments in the non-European world that have given rise to the concept of multiple modernities

Aesthetics · Contingency · Epistemology · Modernity · Modernization theory · Political science · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Gender Studies · History · Law · Philosophy · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Political Economy and Marxism

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