Tag: liquid modernity
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Summary of Liquid Modernity – Chapter Two – Individuality
I’m presently enjoying re-reading Bauman’s major works – I thought offering up my summaries might be useful to some students. I will eventually further summarise/ comment/ critique, but in the meantime.. the raw summary of chapter two of Liquid Modernity…. Bauman begins by pointing out that Huxley’s and Orwell’s dystopias were very much products of…
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Zygmunt Bauman’s Consuming Life (2007): Chapter One
A summary of Zygmunt Bauman’s Consuming Life (2007), chapter one: Consumerism versus Consumption
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Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Times – A Summary
Zygmunt Bauman is one of the world’s leading sociologists. He is particularly interested in how the west’s increasing obsession with ‘individualism’ actually prevents the individual from being free in any meaningful sense of the word. In ‘Liquid Times (2007), Bauman argues that there are a number of negative consequences of globalisation such as the generation…
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Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity – A Summary of Chapter One
A brief summary of Zygmunt Bauman’s Liquid Modernity, chapter one. A level sociology labels Bauman as a postmodern Marxist. Chapter One – Emancipation The chapter begins with Marcuse’s complaint (writing in the 1970s) that most people don’t see the need to be liberated from society, and of those that do, relatively few are prepared to…
