Modernity: thematic preliminaries; Sociological modernism: Marx, Weber and Simmel; Ultra-modernism: structuralist interpretation: Levi-Strauss and Althusser; Western Marxism: Lukacs, Gramsci and Tourainne; Synthesising modernity and social theory; Deconstructing modernity; Modernity in non-modern contexts; The idea of alternative or multiple modernities: cases from Asia, Africa and Latin America; Radicalised modernity: Giddens and Habermas; Dialectic of engaging with and interrogating modernity.
