By Zygmunt Bauman
'Liquid life’ is the type of lifestyles typically lived in our modern, liquid-modern society. Liquid lifestyles can't remain on track, as liquid-modern society can't preserve its form for lengthy. Liquid existence is a precarious lifestyles, lived lower than stipulations of continuing uncertainty.
The such a lot acute and obdurate concerns that hang-out this liquid lifestyles are the fears of being stuck snoozing, of failing to meet up with fast-paced occasions, of overlooking the ‘use by’ dates and being saddled with valueless possessions, of lacking the instant calling for a transformation of tack and being left in the back of. Liquid existence is usually shot via via a contradiction: it needs to be a (possibly endless) sequence of latest beginnings, but accurately consequently it's filled with concerns approximately fast and painless endings, with out which new beginnings will be unthinkable. one of the arts of liquid-modern dwelling and the abilities had to perform them, doing away with issues takes priority over their acquisition.
This and different demanding situations of existence in a liquid-modern society are traced and unravelled within the successive chapters of this new e-book by means of the most awesome and unique social thinkers of our time.
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As it stands today, the term social theory has become so broad that it is almost emptied of content. 17 Social theory thus seems to be a very general label that covers all varieties of theoretically oriented thought within the social sciences. Hans Joas and Wolfgang Knöbl (2004) defend the usability of the neologism Sozialtheorie (‘social theory’) in German discussion. Interestingly, they see Sozialtheorie as a convenient label precisely due to its wide range. According to Joas and Knöbl, social theories are not defined by belonging to any single discipline, such as sociology (in fact, Joas and Knöbl count such strands as structuralism and pragmatism among social theories), since they cover all kinds of general claims about the regularities of social life, which depart from the individualistic premises of economics, pshycology, and political thought, for example.
In sum, to characterize my manner of approach as conceptual portraiture implies that the study does not have any proper ‘findings’ in the strict sense of the word. Rather, the conceptual portrait it produces has to be created and invented. The point could be clarified by drawing on the distinction between discovery and invention that Bergson makes in The Creative Mind: ‘Discovery, or uncovering, has to do with what already exists, actually or virtually; it was therefore certain to happen sooner or later.
70–1, 96, 110–111). In sum, to characterize my manner of approach as conceptual portraiture implies that the study does not have any proper ‘findings’ in the strict sense of the word. Rather, the conceptual portrait it produces has to be created and invented. The point could be clarified by drawing on the distinction between discovery and invention that Bergson makes in The Creative Mind: ‘Discovery, or uncovering, has to do with what already exists, actually or virtually; it was therefore certain to happen sooner or later.