Contemporary Bauman

<p>This text covers Bauman’s contribution to sociology and social theory. This ideal teaching text analyzes Bauman's shift from a sociology of postmodernity to liquid modernity and provides a critical assessment of the contemporary Bauman appraising his novel theory of liquid modernity in terms of its implications for self-identity interpersonal relationships culture communications and the broad-ranging institutional transformations associated with globalization.</p><p>In addition to various extracts from Bauman's work the book also contains a spirited reply from Zygmunt Bauman to both his sympathetic and unsympathetic critics. Bauman concludes by providing a new perspectives on his theory of liquid modernity its differentiation from the modernity/postmodernity debate and its relation to current developments in contemporary social theory.</p>