Tuesday 21 August 2012

What are the key differences between "solid modernity" and "liquid modernity" as described by Zygmunt Bauman in Liquid Modernity?

Zygmunt
Bauman was born in 1927 in Poland to a Jewish-Polish family. Throughout his life, he was twice
forced to move to a different country for his religious views, once to the USSR and once to
Israel.

Following military service, Bauman went back to school, began to
lecture at universities, and eventually became a prominent social theorist.


His work Liquid Modernity was groundbreaking, as it reframed the
way in which people think about modernity and postmodernity. Previously, modernity was treated
as a sociological era governed through an adherence to rules and order. When postmodern
thought...

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