The Vertigo of Late Modernity

The Vertigo of Late Modernity engages with some of the most important concerns facing society today. Author Jock Young brings a fresh, intellectual perspective and offers a new dimension to sociological and criminological theory. He deals with the impact that major social issues have on the modern world, as well as the way in which society and individuals respond to these issues. This major new work explores the fundamental debates that need to be addressed in a late modern world filled with inequality and division.

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Jock Young, one of the foremost criminologists of our time, is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Centre for Criminology at Middlesex University. His work and theories have had a significant influence on the shape of criminology, sociology and politics.

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'Immersing himself in the whirling uncertainty of late modernity, confronting its odd deformities of essentialism and exclusion, Jock Young has produced a comprehensive account of contemporary trouble, anxiety, and transgression. If this is criminology-and it's surely criminology of the best sort-it is a criminology able to account not just for crime and inequality, but for the cultural and the economic, for the existential and the ontological as well. Perhaps most importantly, it is a criminology designed to discover in these intersecting social dynamics real possibilities for critique, hope, and human transformation. Jock Young's The Vertigo of Late Modernity is a work of sweeping-dare I say, dizzying-intellect and imagination.'

• Professor Jeff Ferrell, Texas Christian University, USA, and University of Kent, UK

  'This is precisely what readers would expect from the author of two instant classics: a book that is bound to become the third. As is his habit, Jock Young launches a frontal attack on the 'commonsense' of social studies and its tacit assumptions - as common as they are misleading. Futility of the 'inclusion vs exclusion', 'contented vs insecure', or indeed 'normal vs deviant' oppositions in the globalised and mediatized world is exposed and the subtle yet thorough interpenetration of cultures and porosity of boundaries demonstrated beyond reasonable doubt. The newly coined analytical categories, like chaos of rewards and chaos of identity, existential vertigo, bulimic society or conservative vs liberal modes of othering are bound to become an indispensable part of social scientific vernacular - and let's hope that they will, for the sanity and relevance of the social sciences' sake'

• Zygmunt Bauman, Emeritus Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds

  'Jock Young is one of the great figures in the history of criminology. In this book he prises open paradoxes of identity in late modernity. We experience an emphasis on individualism in an era when shallow soil forms a foundation for self-development. Young deftly analyses shifts in conditions of work and consumption and the insecurities they engender. This is a perceptive reformulation of job, family and community in late modernity'

• Professor John Braithwaite, Australian National University

  The Vertigo of Late Modernity is a seminal new work by Jock Young, author of the bestselling and highly influential book, The Exclusive Society.

  In his new work Young describes the sources of late modern vertigo as twofold: insecurities of status and of economic position. He explores the notion of an underclass and its detachment from the class structure. The book engages with the ways in which modern society attempts to explain deviant behaviour - whether it be crime, terrorism or riots - in terms of motivations and desires separate and distinct from those of the 'normal'. Young critiques the process of othering whether of a liberal or conservative variety, and develops a theory of 'vertigo' to characterise a late modern world filled with inequality and division. He points toward a transformative politics which tackle problems of economic injustice and build and cherish a society of genuine diversity.

  This major new work engages with some of the most important issues facing society today. The Vertigo of Late Modernity is essential reading for academics and advanced students in the areas of criminology, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology and the social sciences more broadly.

  Zusammenfassung
  Describes the sources of late modern vertigo as twofold: insecurities of status and of economic position. This book engages with the ways in which modern society attempts to explain deviant behaviour - whether it be crime, terrorism or riots - in terms of motivations and desires separate and distinct from those of the 'normal'.

  Inhalt

  Crossing the Borderline
  The Disembededness of Everyday Life
  The Genesis of Othering
  The Attractions of Hiatus
  The Vertigo of Late Modernity
  Turbo-Charged Capitalism
  Blurring the Binary Vision
  Bulimia: Not Exclusion But Inclusion/Exclusion
  Crossing the Borderline: Against the Dual City Thesis
  The Functional Underclass
  The Boundaries of Bulimia
  The Precariousness of Inclusion
  The Crime and the Narrowing of Differences
  The Focus Upon the Underclass
  Globalisation and the Generation of Domestic and Global Discontent
  The Sociology of Vindictiveness and the Criminology of Transgression
  Fear of Falling
  The Change in the Focus of Reward
  Towards a Criminology of Transgression
  Humiliation and Rebellion
  The Satisfactions of Transgression
  The Humiliation of Exclusion
  Edgework, Ontological Security and Utopia
  From Turf War to Real War
  Hip Hop Across the Borders
  Chaos and the Coordinates of Order
  Chaos and Identity in the Twenty First Century
  The Undermining of the Meritocracy
  Changes in the Perceived Class Structure
  The Shift to Identity Politics
  Antecedents of the Cultural Shift
  The War Against the Poor
  The Meta-Humiliation of Poverty
  The Decline of Work and The Invisible Servant
  The Declining Centrality of Work?
  Getting the Poor to Work: The US Experiment
  Redemption Through Labour
  Including the Excluded
  Welfare: From Relief to Irresponsibility
  Early Morning in Harlem
  The Invisible Worker
  The Invisible Servant
  Entering the Zone of Humiliation
  Service as a Feudal Relationship
  The Invisible Poor in a Classless Society
  Guilt and Middle Class Solipsism
  Social Inclusion and Redemption through Labour
  New Labour: New Inclusionism
  The Welfare State: Not the Solution but the Problem
  The Will to Win
  Many s a Slip Twixt Cup and Lip: New Labour s Obsessional Neurosis
  The Moral Panic Over Teenage Pregnancy
  Rationality and the Middle Classes
  From Structure to Agency: Beyond the Weak Thesis
  Social and Political Exclusion
  Crossing the Border: To These Wet and Windy Shores
  The Social Construction of the Immigrant
  To These Wet and Windy Shores
  Two Modes of Entry
  Over Twenty Years Ago: The Riots of 1981
  Crime and the Demonisation of the Other
  The Roots of Othering
  The Final Phase: The Irony of Assimilation
  The Roots of the Disturbances
  The Riots in Bradford, Burnley and Oldham
  Postscript: The Riots in France 2005
  Terrorism and Anti-Terrorism Terrorism: The Banality of Evil
  Proxy Wars and the Defeat of the Soviet Union
  Occidentalism
  The House of Bush and the House of Saudi
  The Two Contradictions: Inside and Outside the First World
  Symmetry and Differences
  The Beatification of Evil
  The Logic of the West
  The Photographs from Abu Grahib
  Love Was All They Had to Set Against Them
  The London Bombing and the Banality of Evil
  The Dialectics of Othering and the Problem of Evil
  The Generation of Anger and the Frustration of Normality
  The Othering of the Otherer
  The Summoning Up of Violence
  Violence and the Metaphor of War
  Elsewhere: On the D Train to Manhattan
  Urban Somnambulism: Elsewhere in a…