Abstract
What are the main patterns of contemporary social change? Looking across the landscape of contemporary social theory it seems that social scientists have given up on this question. Classical sociological theorists are ritually invoked, but without any great faith that Marx, Weber or Durkheim can yield more than the occasional concept or insight. Labels proliferate, but their weakness is indicated by the fact that they are derivative: ‘late’, ‘post-’ or ‘radicalized’ modernity. Totalizing concepts such as ‘capitalism’ that were once regarded as central are nowadays seen as reductive: is society really driven by an economic logic? In any event, most current thinkers argue that there are no more ‘grand narratives’, and instead that there is ‘agency’ in how we socially construct the world, implying a plurality of these constructions without any means to adjudicate between them.
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