This text covers Baumans contribution to sociology and social theory. Thisideal teaching text analyzes Baumans shift from a sociology of postmodernityto liquid ... » 

This text covers Baumans contribution to sociology and social theory. Thisideal teaching text analyzes Baumans shift from a sociology of postmodernityto liquid modernity and provides a critical assessment of the contemporaryBauman appraising his novel theory of liquid modernity in terms of itsimplications for selfidentity interpersonal relationships culturecommunications and the broadranging institutional transformations associatedwith globalization.In addition to various extracts from Baumans work the book also contains aspirited reply from Zygmunt Bauman to both his sympathetic and unsympatheticcritics. Bauman concludes by providing a new perspectives on his theory ofliquid modernity its differentiation from the modernitypostmodernity debateand its relation to current developments in contemporary social theory. «