The argument
Directions
Founding narratives of modernity and the logics of social change
Introduction
Narrating the modern, envisioning the social
Capitalistic modernity
Industrial modernity
Rationalistic modernity
Modern fragments
Civilized modernity
Conclusion: constructing modernity and the sociological project
The deconstrcutive turn
Introduction
Critical theory
Poststructuralism and the logics of disintegration
Modernity, order and governance
Critiquing poststructuralism
Other deconstructions
Radical difference
Poststructuralism, radical difference and sociology
Reflexive methodology and sociological practice
Conclusion
Postmodernity and the cultural turn
Introduction
The postmodern turn
A postmodern paradigm?
Postmodern distinctions: the cultural and the social
Postmodern differences
Radical postmodernism
Postmodernity and sociological strategy
Reintegrating the social
Conclusion
Late modernity and the reflexive turn
Introduction
Retinking postmodernity
Reframing modernity
Late modernity
Risk society
Reflexive modernity
Globalization and individualization
Life-politics and personal life
Conclusion: the sociological project of reflexivty
Reconstructing self and idenity
Introduction
The project of self-identity
Self-monitoring and existential questions
Self-identity, reflexivity and empowerment
The difference within: self and psychic structure
Psychic structure and repression
Gendered subjectivities and patriarchal structures
The decentred self
Inscribing selfhood: discipline and power
Disciplined subjects
Discipline / reflexivity
Consuming postmodern idenities
Do-it-yourself identities
Self reflexivity and resources
Conclusion
Reflexive relating and intimacy
Introduction
Transforming intimacy
Plastic sexuality, the pure relationships and confluent love
Intimate battles: biographies, relationships and work
Order and uncertainty
Critics of intimacy
Power, sexuality and gender
Sexuality and power
Sexuality, gender and power
Demanding reflexivity: gender, work and intimacy
Rationalization and gendered reflexivity
Reflexive working, sexuality and emotion
Reflexive gender in intimate relationships
Conclusion
Death, deskilling and life-politics
Introduction
Modernity, death and deskilling
Late modernity, death and the self
Death as a problem in late modernity
Resources for living
Life-politics and non-emancipated experience
Death and reconstructivist sociology
Conclusion
The sociology of reflexivity or reflexive sociology?
Introduction
Situating reconstructivist theories of modernity
Modernity and the social: construction, deconstructions and reconstructions
Reconstructing sociology: the sociology of reflexivity
Reflexivity, social change and personal life
Reflexive sociology: where difference and power matter
Can the sociology of reflexivity become reflexive sociology?
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Late modernity and social change : Reconstructing social and personal life by Brian Heaphy. ISBN 9780203505687. Published by Routledge in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
