Can We Live Together: Equality and Difference - Softcover

Touraine, Alain

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0745622127 ISBN 13: 9780745622125

Publisher: Polity, 2000

Synopsis

In this provocative and timely new book, Alain Touraine explores the question of how we might live together in a truly globalized world society. Rejecting the seductive metaphor of a global melting pot, Touraine mounts a powerful attack on the idea that we now live together as equals, sharing the same social and cultural values. If anything, he argues, our differences are being heightened, as communities increasingly define their identities against the encroaching forces of globalization.

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Review:

a Touraine re--poses the issue of social solidarity which was so central to social thought at the end of the nineteenth century, setting it against the background of late twentieth--century globalization, the transformation of human societies and subjects and the displacement of many of the structures which previously gave them some stability. The book should be an important reference point for social and political theory in the new century.a William Outhwaite, School of European Studies, University of Sussex

About the Author:

Alain Touraine is Professor of Sociology at the College de France and Director of Studies at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

About this edition

• Publisher: Polity
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0745622127
• ISBN 13: 9780745622125
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 336