Based on the Raymond Fred West memorial lectures which the author delivered at Stanford University in April 1988

Includes bibliographical references (pages 181-186)

I. Introduction. -- 2. The discontinuities of modernity. -- 3. Security and danger, trust and risk. -- 4. Sociology and modernity. -- 5. Modernity, time, and space. -- 6. Disembedding. -- 7. Trust. -- 8. The reflexivity of modernity. -- 9. Modernity or post-modernity? -- 10. Summary. -- II. The institutional dimensions of modernity. -- 2. The globalising of modernity. -- 3. Two theoretical perspectives. -- 4. Dimensions of globalisation. -- III. Trust and modernity. -- 2. Trust in abstract systems. -- 3. Trust and expertise. -- 4. Trust and ontological security. -- 5. The pre-modern and the modern. -- IV. Abstract systems and the transformation of intimacy. -- 2. Trust and personal relations. -- 3. Trust and personal identity. -- 4. Risk and danger in the modern world. -- 5. Risk and ontological security. -- 6. Adaptive reactions. -- 7. A phenomenology of modernity. -- 8. Deskilling and reskilling in everyday life. -- 9. Objections to post-modernity. -- V. Riding the juggernaut. -- 2. Utopian realism. -- 3. Future orientations: the role of social movements. -- 4. Post-modernity. -- VI. Is modernity a Western project? -- 2. Concluding observations

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