Postmodernism and Social Theory
Postmodernism and Social Theory

Author: Steven Seidman

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1992-04-08

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9781557862846

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A new division has emerged in the social sciences between modernists and their post-modern critics. The former defend the project of a general theory with secure analytical foundations; the latter challenge the possibility and indeed the desirability of aspiring to create totalizing theories. Postmodernists contest the view of science as an autonomous sphere of knowledge and reflection. This volume brings together leading theorists in the social sciences and philosophy to debate the respective merits of modernism and postmodernism as paradigms of social inquiry. It examines the relation between science, critique and narrative, addressing questions about the moral and political meaning of science today.

Postmodern Social Theory
Postmodern Social Theory

Author: George Ritzer

Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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Ritzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable & coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas & most important thinkers in postmodern social theory.

Postmodernism and the Social Sciences
Postmodernism and the Social Sciences

Author: Robert Hollinger

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated

Published: 1994-08-04

Total Pages: 216

ISBN-13:

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The major themes of postmodernist writing are demystified in this introductory text. Robert Hollinger reviews key postmodern discussions on critical topics such as values, identity, and the self and society. He compares postmodern thinking with that of the enlightenment project, modernism, modernity, Marxism and Critical Theory. This, together with his treatment of Foucault, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari and other leading postmodern theorists, provides an excellent introduction to modern social theory.

The Postmodern Turn
The Postmodern Turn

Author: Steven Seidman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1994-11-25

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780521458795

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The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.

The Postmodern Condition
The Postmodern Condition

Author: Jean-François Lyotard

Publisher: U of Minnesota Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9780816611737

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In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Images of Postmodern Society
Images of Postmodern Society

Author: Norman K Denzin

Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited

Published: 1991-09-26

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780803985162

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By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, sex lies and videotape, Do the Right Thing - Norman K Denzin explores the tension between ideas of the postmodern, and traditional ways of analyzing society. The discussion moves between two forms of text: social theory and cinematic representations of contemporary life. Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and Marxism through the ideas of key theorists (Mills, Baudrillard, Barthes, Habermas, Jameson, Bourdieu, Derrida and others). He relates these ideas to the problematic of the postmodern self as e

Postmodern Geographies
Postmodern Geographies

Author: Edward W. Soja

Publisher: Verso

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780860919360

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Written by one of America's foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an "unnecessary complication." Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of "flexible accumulation." The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space.

From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society

Author: Krishan Kumar

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Published: 1995-10-05

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 9780631185598

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This lucid and insightful study of a crucial area of current debate covers the three theories of contemporary change: the information society, post-Fordism and postmodernity.

Social Postmodernism
Social Postmodernism

Author: Linda Nicholson

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1995-09-14

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780521475716

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Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches. But these essays push postmodern analysis in a particular direction: toward a social postmodernism which integrates the micro-social concerns of the new social movements with an institutional and cultural analysis in the service of a transformative political vision.

Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity
Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity

Author: Bryan S. Turner

Publisher: Sage Publications Limited

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13:

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This book encapsulates the recent debate on the concepts of modernity and postmodernity. Arguments over modernism and its aftermath are traced to their origins in art, architecture and literature. The authors then focus on the contribution of sociology to this cultural dispute through the theories of Weber, Simmel, Habermas, Lyotard and Baudrillard. Throughout, Theories of Modernity and Postmodernity demonstrates the connections between traditional problems of sociological theory and the contemporary debate around modernity.