This study reports on New Zealand dairy farmers’ access to and use of information as mediated through conditions of risk and trust within the context of their interpersonal social networks. We located participants’ reports of their information use within their perceived environments of trust and risk, following Giddens’s [1990. The consequences of modernity. Polity Press, Stanford, CA] typology...

Modernity is a global condition of an ongoing socio-cultural, economic, and political transformation human experience, with tradition or religion having no significant role to play. It the gradual decline in modernity through implementation principles secularism which has, according Islamic revivalists, plunged world into crisis jahiliyya (unGodliness). Revivalists sociologists such as Anthony ...

Noise appears to critique the prevailing cognitive and social habits of modernity by providing concrete and particular art objects that demand attention and jar us from one-dimensional life. Noise sounds, for a moment, like a true alternative not only to contemporary music but to a whole way of thinking through abstract generalisation and living through commercial mediation. Understood in this ...

If there is one agreement between theorists of modernity and those of post-modernity, it is about the centrality of consumption to modern capitalism and contemporary culture. To thinkers as different as Werner Sombart, Emile Durkheim and Thorstein Veblen at the turn of the twentieth century, consumption was a decisive force behind modern capitalism, its dynamism and social structure. More recen...

In the course of the past decade, the question of identity in the Turkish context has acquired an increasing significance. With the emergence of trends which placed the question of identity outside of the official realm, the people who live on this land began to stagger between local and national as well as traditional and modern identities. This has paved the way for the explosion of multiple ...