Bhambra's Varieties Of Second Modernity

‘Modernity’, namely, the societal transformations brought by the industrial and political revolutions that started in the eighteenth century in Europe, has been theorised by a number of analytics as leading to the emergence of sociology. Following the social evolutions of the ‘Great Transformation’ that happened in Europe, as Gurminder K. Bhambra explains in the beginning of her article Sociology and Postcolonialism: Another ‘Missing Revolution’ (2007), the birth sociology was seen as an attempt to understand them.
Like Ulrich Beck in his article Varieties of Second Modernity and the Cosmopolitan Vision (2016), she advocates for a reconstruction of sociology as a discipline in light of the question of Modernity. While they both in some way …show more content…
The same idea can be found in Beck’s argument in the way he advances the idea that it is time for calling into question the “universalistic social theory” that “mistakenly absolutizes the trajectory, the historical experience and future expectation of Western (…) modernisation” (Beck, 2016, p.258). Related to the question of modernity, they both bring a critique of the Eurocentrism of social theories and the requirement to fundamentally restructure social sciences but the arguments underpinning such advocacies are different for the two …show more content…
Albeit he describes these elements as the “European model of world risk society”, he does not call for a re-examination of the construction of these concepts but only for a modification of the model examining various types of risks derived from differences of East-Asian modernisation. Bhambra (2007, p.877) writes in her article that “theorists of multiple modernities dissociate themselves from Eurocentrism at the same time as embracing its core assumptions”, and this is what Beck does for he still situates European modernity as what Bhambra calls the “originary modernity” with “different cultural