The Vertigo of Late Modernity [Paperback]

The Vertigo of Late Modernity?engages with some of the most important concerns facing society today. Author Jock Young?brings a fresh, intellectual perspective and offers a new dimension to sociological and criminological theory. He deals with the impact that major social issues have on the modern world, as well as the way in which society and individuals respond to these issues. This major new work explores the fundamental debates that need to be addressed in a late modern world filled with inequality and division.The Vertigo of Late Modernity?engages with some of the most important concerns facing society today. Author Jock Young?brings a fresh, intellectual perspective and offers a new dimension to sociological and criminological theory. He deals with the impact that major social issues have on the modern world, as well as the way in which society and individuals respond to these issues. This major new work explores the fundamental debates that need to be addressed in a late modern world filled with inequality and division.Crossing the Borderline
The Disembededness of Everyday Life
The Genesis of Othering
The Attractions of Hiatus
The Vertigo of Late Modernity
Turbo-Charged Capitalism
Blurring the Binary Vision
Bulimia: Not Exclusion But Inclusion/Exclusion
Crossing the Borderline: Against the Dual City Thesis
The Functional Underclass
The Boundaries of Bulimia
The Precariousness of Inclusion
The Crime and the Narrowing of Differences
The Focus Upon the Underclass
Globalisation and the Generation of Domestic and Global Discontent
The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Criminology of Transgression
Fear of Falling
The Change in the Focus of Reward
Towards a Criminol³i