Late Modernity

The Exclusive Society: Social Exclusion, Crime and Difference in Late Modernity (1999) is a foundational work of late modern criminology by British sociologist and criminologist Jock Young. In this influential book, Young links rising crime rates and moral panics to processes of social exclusion, insecurity, and inequality in advanced capitalist societies. Challenging both leftist optimism

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With The Society of Singularities (2017), Andreas Reckwitz delivered one of the most influential analyses of late modern society. At a time when individuality, uniqueness, and authenticity are invoked almost to the point of inflation, Reckwitz argues that the basic principle of modern sociality has fundamentally shifted: from a logic of the general to a

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