Beck Ulrich, Giddens Anthony. Reflexive Modernization: Politics, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modern Social Order

Stanford University Press, 1994. — 228 p.Three prominent social thinkers discuss how modern society is undercutting its formations of class, stratum, occupations, sex roles, the nuclear family, and more. Reflexive modernization, or the way one kind of modernization undercuts and changes another, has wide ranging implications for contemporary social and cultural theory, as this provocative book demonstrates.