Starting the Twenty-first Century: Sociological. Tulea**

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Starting the Twenty-first CenturySociological Reflections and Challenges\nAuthor(s): Gitta Tulea\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Inc, United Kingdom\nImprint: Transaction Publishers\nISBN-13: 9780765800985, 978-0765800985\nSynopsis\nJrgen Habermas, speaking of postmodern society, remarked that extension of the means of communication not only allows a wide range of information, but it also encourages permanent connections between different peoples, cultures, and social discourses. It thus facilitates better general understanding, a clarifying of real or apparent contradictions. But this process becomes truly positive only when it is performed between equal members. Globalization of information does not minimize the possibility of conflict or terrorism, if fundamental social problems are not resolved or at least approached in an active way.\n\nThis volume examines the major upheavals of the twentieth century and views within the framework of these events and challeng.