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Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 324
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKRitzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable & coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas & most important thinkers in postmodern social theory.
Author: Steven Seidman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1994-11-25
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780521458795
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Edward W. Soja
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780860919360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWritten 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.
Author: Robert Hollinger
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Published: 1994-08-04
Total Pages: 216
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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.
Author: Norman K Denzin
Publisher: SAGE Publications Limited
Published: 1991-09-26
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9780803985162
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBy 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
Author: Krishan Kumar
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1995-10-05
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9780631185598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: Nicos P. Mouzelis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2008-11-20
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0521515858
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the conflict between modern and postmodern theories in sociology and attempts to bridge the divide between them.
Author: S. L. Doshi
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9788170338161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnalytically Examines The Emergence And Development Of Modernity And Postmodernity In West And India And Argues That The Classical And Modern Sociological Theories Have Become Irrevalent To Study The Present Capitalism Society. A Pioneer Effort To Introduce The Relevant Theories To Indian Students, Teachers And Policy Makers.
Author: Jonathan H. Turner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2006-05-17
Total Pages: 731
ISBN-13: 0387324585
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSociology is experiencing what can only be described as hyperdifferentiation of theories - there are now many approaches competing for attention in the intellectual arena . From this perspective, we should see a weeding out of theories to a small number, but this is not likely to occur because each of the many theoretical perspectives has a resource base of adherents. As a result, theories in sociology do not compete head on with each other as much as they coexist. This seminal reference work was brought together with an eye to capturing the diversity of theoretical activity in sociology - specifically the forefront of theory. Contributors describe what they themselves are doing right now rather than what others have done in the past. The goal of this volume is to allow prominent theorists working in a variety of traditions - who wouldn't usually come together - to review their work. The chapters in this volume represent a mix of theoretical orientations and strategies, but these these theories are diverse and represent the prominent theoretical discussions in sociology today. Some areas included are: Section I: Theoretical Methodologies and Strategies Section II: The Cultural Turn in Sociological Theorizing Section III: Theorizing Interaction Processes Section IV: Theorizing from the Systemic and Macrolevel Section V: New Directions in Evolutionary Theorizing Section VI: Theorizing on Power, Conflict, and Change SectionVII: Theorizing from Assumptions of Rationality This handbook will be of interest to those wanting a broad spectrum and overview of late 20th - early 21st century sociological theory.
Author: Jason L. Powell
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 218
ISBN-13: 9781600216381
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere has been an array of literature on the notion of 'postmodernism' in social science literature in recent years. This exciting book focuses on three broad continuities: one, debunking the central theoretical tenets of postmodernism with reference to identity, methodology, governance and modernist theory; two, the book engages with current social issues and events in popular culture: for example, film; professional power, masculinity and terrorism; three, the book also rethinks postmodernism in light of under-researched variables of analysis of time and ageing, the 'body', 'biology' and 'choice'.
