TY - JOUR ID - 64059 TI - THE DISCONTENTS OF MODERNITY IN THE WORKS OF CLASSIC SOCIOLOGISTS JO - POLITICAL QUARTERLY JA - JPQ LA - en SN - 1735-9678 AU - Hajinaseri, Saeid AU - Ahmadian, Sajjad AD - Assistant Professor; political science at university of Tehran AD - Ph.d candidate of political science at university of Tehran Y1 - 2017 PY - 2017 VL - 47 IS - 4 SP - 873 EP - 890 KW - Alexis de Tocqueville KW - Anti-social individualism KW - Discontents of modernity KW - Emil Durkheim KW - Formal rationality KW - Max Weber KW - Soft despotism DO - 10.22059/jpq.2017.125862.1006550 N2 - Just like a raging flood, modernity, equipped with an irresistible power, has drastically revolutionized all aspects of human life. Comprehensiveness, inevitability and persistency  of modern developments has seized the opportunity to talk about bright and dark aspects of modernity from the hands of a certain stratum of people living in a special period of time, giving it an always-on relevance. Modernity in every step of its advance, apart from marvelous achievements, has brought about unique problems that intrigued the greatest thinker of any period. Considering the dynamics of modernity, It goes without saying that there is a great gap between our age and the time when classic theorists of sociology offered their originate reflections. However these classics has still retained their significance, because in the same way we are confronting relentless change and its ensuing crisis. In this article we show how three of and how their conception of modernity discontents reflect in their methodology. UR - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_64059.html L1 - https://jpq.ut.ac.ir/article_64059_216ca84bd738c0075f03b8bb50fac51e.pdf ER -