Latin America and contemporary modernity : a sociological interpretation / José Maurício Domingues.

"First published in 2008. First issued in paperback ed 2011".

Includes bibliographical references (pages [165]-180) and index.

Latin America and Modernity -- Multidimensionality and Agency, Imaginary and Institutions -- The Structure of the Book -- 1. Law, Rights, and Justice -- The Pulse of Freedom -- Intermediate Reflections - Real Abstractions, Disembeddings, and Re-embeddings -- The New Faces of Rights, Law, and Justice -- Partial Conclusions: Real Abstractions, Social Coordination, and the (Renewed) Relations between Concreteness and Universality -- 2. Development, Globalization, and the Search for Alternatives -- Capitalism and the Modern Project, Markets and the State -- Intermediate Reflections - Accumulation, Regulation, and Development -- New Regulations, Economic Restructuring, and the Patterns of Capital Accumulation -- Partial Conclusions: A New Mode of Regulation Indeed, but a New Regime of Accumulation? -- 3. Identities and Domination, Solidarity and Projects -- The Build-Up of a Region -- Intermediate Reflections - Collective Subjectivities and Sites of Solidarity -- Collective Subjectivities and Modernizing Moves Today -- Partial Conclusions: Modernizing Moves, Transformism, and Molecular Change -- A Recapitulation of Basic Issues -- Modernization, Civilization, and Development -- Shortcomings of the Present, Possibilities of the Future.