Book Cover -- Title -- Contents -- Prologue -- Acknowledgements -- Modes of narrating modernity -- Enablement and constraint: Understanding modern institutions -- Restricted liberal modernity: The incomplete elaboration of the modern project -- Crisis and transformation of modernity: The end of the liberal utopia -- Networks of power and barriers to entry: The organization of allocative practices -- Building iron cages: The organization of authoritative practices -- Discourses on society: Reorganizing the mode of cognitive representation -- Pluralization of practices: The crisis of organized modernity -- Sociology and contingency: The crisis of the organized mode of representation -- Modernity and self-identity: Liberation and disembedding -- Incoherent practices and postmodern selves: The current condition of modernity -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.