Is Re-modernization Occurring - And If So, How to Prove It?: A Commentary on Ulrich Beck
Author(s)
Latour, Bruno
Abstract
On the face of it, there is no connection between the social theory developed by Ulrich Beck under the name of ‘second modernization’ and the post-ethnomethodological argument developed by Bruno Latour and his colleagues under the name of actor-network theory. Yet they are both concerned with empirical evidence of a major shift in modernity. Hence the idea of elaborating an empirical test to probe the extent to which ‘second modernization’ is a real phenomenon, or rather, as is suggested here, a shift in our interpretation of what modernity has always been about.
