After the Crisis

After the CrisisDiscover profound insights into the long term societal effects of the economic crisis with 'After the Crisis,' authored by renowned sociologist Alain Touraine. This essential read delves into the pivotal changes shaping our world post crisis, assessing the shift from traditional economic integration to individualism and cultural values. Analyze how the financial upheaval has intensified the divide between the economy and society, and explore potential

Discover profound insights into the long-term societal effects of the economic crisis with 'After the Crisis,' authored by renowned sociologist Alain Touraine. This essential read delves into the pivotal changes shaping our world post-crisis, assessing the shift from traditional economic integration to individualism and cultural values. Analyze how the financial upheaval has intensified the divide between the economy and society, and explore potential futures—one of despair or one leading to transformative cultural evolution.

This compelling book examines how individuals, faced with unemployment and financial instability, may respond in drastically different ways: either sinking into disengagement or emerging as active social agents, advocating for moral and universal principles. Gain a clearer understanding of our precarious future, oscillating between disaster and significant reform.

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ISBN: 9780745653853
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 180

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780745653853
Year: 2014
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (UK)
Pages: 180


Description:
What effects will the current economic crisis have on the long-term development of our societies? What does the future hold in store when we emerge from the crisis? These two questions lie at the heart of this important new book by the leading French sociologist Alain Touraine. In an era dominated by the global economy and the triumph of individualism, our society has broken away from the old model of integration in place since the industrial revolution. We no longer see ourselves as players in an economic system around which every aspect of society is ordered but rather as individuals with our own rights, capable of creating our own lives in a world in which cultural values prevail. The financial crisis and the growing autonomy of speculative and financial imperatives have exacerbated the rift between the economy and society and could push this long-term tendency in either of two directions. On the one hand, individuals who find themselves unemployed, impoverished and stripped of their savings may feel increasingly excluded and incapable of reacting politically, which would explain the silence of many victims of the crisis. On the other hand, individuals could also find themselves transformed into social actors who are defined increasingly in moral and universal terms, in which case the crisis could help to precipitate a long-term cultural evolution. We are facing a future as yet undecided, a future hovering between catastrophe and radical reform. This book explores the factors that could tip the balance.