ABSTRACT
Today, many issues in everyday life are understood from the perspective of the change from modern to post- or late-modern society. We talk about how things were before and how they have developed today. We also focus on how child and family life have changed and how people’s lives and self-identities have been influenced by these changes. Post- or late-modern life (or ‘modernistic’ life as we prefer to call it here) has become a basic concept, and Bauman, Beck and Giddens especially have influenced the understanding of contemporary modernity in social science, the media and current thinking in general (Bauman, 1998, 2001; Beck, 1992; Giddens, 1984, 1997).
