Polish-British sociologist Zygmunt Bauman was born 100 years ago today. He is best known as the theorist of “liquid modernity,” in which social bonds decline in favor of an atomized individualism.

The life of Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017), a sociologist and public intellectual who personally confronted and repeatedly surmounted some of the most convulsive forces of the 20th century, including war, ...

WARSAW — Polish-British sociologist and philosopher Zygmunt Bauman died on Monday at the age of 91 at his home in the English city of Leeds, according to Polish media. Bauman died “surrounded by his ...

Zygmunt Bauman, one of the most prominent and prolific European sociologists of recent decades, has died at the age of 91. The Polish-born left-wing thinker’s works explored the fluidity of identity ...

The Polish-born sociologist Zygmunt Bauman s subtle and quietly insistent dissections of the human experience of modernity and globalisation have gradually won him recognition as a foremost scholar of ...

Polish-born Jewish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman has died in his home in England at age 91, the Washington Post reported today. Bauman lived in England since 1971 after he was driven out of Poland by a ...

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Change is the only permanence and uncertainty the only certainty.” Such was the central belief of the late sociologist Zygmunt Bauman, laid out at length in his 2000 book Liquid Modernity and in ...

Bauman, the author of more than 50 books, believed that the genocide of the Holocaust and totalitarian systems were unnatural, but the logical consequence of modernity. WARSAW, Poland (JTA) — Zygmunt ...