A New Paradigm for Understanding Today's World

In the first centuries of its modernization, the West thought of social reality in political terms: disorder and order, law and nation, people and revolution. Then, with the Industrial Revolution, capitalism was freed from political power. At that time, we talked about classes, wealth, inequalities and redistribution in the name of a new paradigm, an economic and social paradigm.

Today, in the age of the global economy and individualism, globalization has shattered these old models of society. Each of us, caught up in the attraction of production and mass culture, is trying to escape from these and establish ourselves as the subjects of our own lives. The new paradigm that we put forward in this new effort is a cultural paradigm.

The old paradigms were about the conquest of the world, the new one is all about ourselves. Meanwhile, while we observe a world ruled by men falling apart, we also enter a society of women.

At this point, Alain Touraine traces two vital questions: Is a new modernization model possible? Could a new dynamism emerge in our relaxed societies?

A giant reference book to understand the new world.

The old paradigms were about the conquest of the world, the new one is all about ourselves. Meanwhile, while we observe a world ruled by men falling apart, we also enter a society of women. At this point, Alain Touraine traces two vital questions: Is a new modernization model possible? Could a new dynamism emerge in our relaxed societies?

(From the Promotional Bulletin)

Dough Type: 2nd Dough

First Print Year: 2007

Number of Pages: 300

Size: 14x21

Number of Printings: 2nd Printing

Language Turkish

Media Type: Paperback