Books:
Abel. Freedom and Control In Modern Society (1954);
Adkins. Revisions: Gender and Sexuality in Late Modernity (2002);
Albrow. The Global Age: State and Society Beyond Modernity (1996);
Apter. The Politics of Modernization (1965);
- Rethinking Development: Modernization, Dependency, and Post-Modern Politics (1987);
Balandier. The Sociology of Black Africa: Social Dynamics in Central Africa (1970, in French 1955);
Baudrilard. The System of Objects (2020, in French 1968);
- The Consumer Society: Myths and Structures (2016 , in French 1970);
- For a Critique of the Political Economy of the Sign (2019, in French 1972);
- The Mirror of Production (1975, in French 1973);
- Symbolic Exchange and Death (2016, in French 1976);
- Forget Foucault (2007, in French 1977);
- In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, Or, the End of the Social (1983, in French 1978);
- Simulacra and Simulation (1983, in French 1981);
- Fatal Strategies (1990, in French 1983);
Bauman. Legislators and Interpreters: On Modernity, Postmodernity, and Intellectuals (1987);
- Freedom (1988);
- Modernity and the Holocaust (1989);
- Modernity and Ambivalence (1991);
- Intimations of Postmodernity (1992);
- Postmodernity and Its Discontents (1997);
- Globalisation: The Human Consequences (1998);
- In Search of Politics (1999);
- Liquid Modernity (2000);
- Liquid Love (2003);
- Identity (2004);
- Liquid Life (2005);
- Liquid Fear (2006);
Beck U. World Risk Society (1997);
- The Brave New World of Work (2000);
- World at Risk (2009);
- Risk Society: Towards a New Modernity (1992, in German 1986);
- Power in the Global Age (2005, in German 2002);
Beck-Gernsheim. The Social Implications of Bioengineering (1995);
- Reinventing the Family: in Search of New Lifestyles (2002);
- Individualization: Institutionalized Individualism and its Social and Political Consequences (2002);
- Distant Love (2012);
Eisenstadt. Modernization: Protest and Change (1966);
- Tradition, Change, and Modernity (1973);
- Patterns of Modernity (1987);
- Multiple Modernities (2002);
Foucault. Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason (1988, in French 1961);
- The Birth of the Clinic: An Archaeology of Medical Perception (1973, in French 1963);
- The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences (1970, in French 1966);
- Archaeology of Knowledge (1982, in French 1969);
- Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison (1977, in French 1975);
- The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1: The Will to Knowledge (1990, in French 1976);
- The History of Sexuality, Vol. 2: The Use of Pleasure (1990, in French 1984a);
- The History of Sexuality, Vol. 3: The Care of the Self (1988, in French 1984b);
Giddens. The Consequences of Modernity (1990);
- Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age (1991);
- The Transformation of Intimacy: Sexuality, Love and Eroticism in Modern Societies (1992);
Gilroy. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness (1993);
Habermas. Legitimation Crisis (1975, in German 1973);
- Communication and the Evolution of Society (1979, in German 1976);
- The Theory of Communicative Action (1984, in German 1981);
- The Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (1989, in German 1962);
Hall. Formations of Modernity (1992);
Inglehart. Modernization and Postmodernization (1997);
- Modernization, Cultural Change and Democracy: The Human Development Sequence (2005);
Jameson. Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism (1991);
- A Singular Modernity (2002);
- The Ancients and the Postmoderns: On the Historicity of Forms (2015);
Kellner. Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity (1989);
Lefebvre. Everyday Life in the Modern World (1971, in French 1968);
Luhmann. Observation on Modernity (1998, in German 1992);
Lyotard. The Postmodern Condition: A Report on Knowledge (1984, in French 1979);
Offe. Modernity and The State: East and West (1996);
Parsons. Sociological Theory and Modern Society (1967);
Redfield. The Primitive World and its Transformations (1953);
Robertson. Talcott Parsons: Theorist of Modernity (1991);
- Global Modernities (1995a);
- Theory of Modernity: Parsons' Perspective (1995b);
- Globality and Modernity (2002);
Rogers. Modernization among Peasants: The Impact of Communication (1969);
Smelser. Social Change in the Industrial Revolution: An Application of Theory to the British Cotton Industry (1959);
Therborn. European Modernity and Beyond: The Trajectory of European Societies: 1945-2000 (1995);
Touraine. The Post-Industrial Society (1971, in French 1969);
- Critique of Modernity (1995, in French 1992).