Dialectics and Modernity, Autonomy and Solidarity

J. M. Domingues

Sociological Research Online, 1997, vol. 2, issue 4, 71-85

Abstract: This article connects the contemporary crisis of modernity to the crisis of the Welfare State in the West and to its so far incomplete establishment in ‘Latin’-America, with special reference to Brazil. The reflexivisation of modernity is thus linked to a discussion of citizenship and social police which harks back to the definition of the principles of social policy, focusing on the possible alternative of ‘generative politics’ as a means of creating new forms of collective solidarity. The crisis of dialectical thought and the problem of social change are thereby tackled and a different way of understanding them is put forward, in accordance with new sorts of contemporary sociability.

Keywords: Brazil; Citizenship; Dialectics; Generative Politics; Modernity; Social Policy; Social Transformation; Solidarity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.5153/sro.126

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