Bauman Elias and Latour on Modernity and Its Alternatives provides a synopsis of and comparison between the conceptions of modernity and its alternatives as found in the works of Bauman Elias and Latour. Bauman and Elias share a few relevant features bearing on their conceptions of modernity and its possible alternatives Latour on the other hand when compared to these sociologists is a maverick thinker. The set of alternatives is as follows modernity vs. postmodernity Bauman civilization vs. ba