Sociology of Postmodernism
Author: Dr Scott Lash
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 1317858522
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Sociology of Postmodernism
Author: Dr Scott Lash
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-01-21
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1317858530
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This authoritative and revealing book provides the first sociological examination of postmodernism. Lash examines the differences between modernism and postmodernism, providing a clear explanation of why postmodernism is important.
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Sociology After Postmodernism
Author: David Owen
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 1997-03-25
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9781446236833
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Postmodernism is frequently described as dealing a death-blow to sociology. This book, however, argues that it is a mistake to conceive postmodernism in terms of a fatal attack upon what sociologists do. The contributors locate the identity of sociology after' postmodernism as a contested site which opens up the possibility of re-imagining the enterprise of sociology. They show how this re-imagination might be conducted and trace some of the key potential consequences.
A Sociology of the Absurd
Author: Stanford M. Lyman
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780930390853
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This work provides a crystallization and particularization of a school of sociological thinking variously called "creative sociology," "existential sociology," "phenomenological sociology," "conflict theory," and "dramaturgical analysis." The result is a methodological synthesis of the "dual" visions of Erving Goffman and Harold Garfinkel. This book equips the reader with a framework for providing adequate descriptions of those face-to-face encounters that make up everyday life. This edition includes essays not found in the first edition, as well as a new introduction that locates it in the spectrum of contemporary theorizing.
Postmodern Social Theory
Author: George Ritzer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
Postmodern Cowboy
Author: Keith Kerr
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-11-17
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 131725371X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →More than 50 years ago, C. Wright Mills heralded a new age for sociology for the 1960s and beyond. Yet his forward-looking vision also foretold some of the social conditions we associate, more recently, with postmodern society. This intellectual biography of Mills emphasizes early life experiences that shaped Mills's expansive vision of the future, just as Kerr develops, from Mills, tools for confronting current and looming problems. Drawing upon little-known documents, Kerr expands our knowledge about this leading 20th-century sociologist, and shows how forward-looking Millsian scholarship can enhance the endeavors of sociology today.
Postmodernism is Not What You Think
Author: Charles C. Lemert
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2015-12-03
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 131725368X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →'Charles Lemert is one of the most thoughtful and interesting of sociology's postmodernists. He recurrently finds new angles of vision and is especially helpful for overcoming the pernicious opposition of 'micro' and 'macro' perspectives.' -Craig Calhoun, New York University (on the first edition) Highly readable, the second edition of Postmodernism Is Not What You Think responds to the widespread claim that postmodernism is over. It explains the historical connections between the postmodern and globalization. Those who wish to kill the term postmodernism still must face the facts that the former nationalistic world-system has collapsed and is slowly being replaced by a more global set of structures. The book is completely revised and updated with an entirely new section on globalization. The media and popular culture, identity politics, the science wars, politics and cultural studies, structuralism and poststructuralism, and the new sociologies are also put in perspective as signs of the new social formations dawning at the end of the modern age. Lemert shows that the postmodern is less a theory than a condition of social life brought about by the trouble modernity has gotten itself into.
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
Author: Pauline Marie Rosenau
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1991-11-05
Total Pages: 250
ISBN-13: 1400820618
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields. For example, in psychology it questions the conscious, logical, coherent subject; in public administration it encourages a retreat from central planning and from reliance on specialists; in political science it calls into question the authority of hierarchical, bureaucratic decision-making structures that function in carefully defined spheres; in anthropology it inspires the protection of local, primitive cultures from First World attempts to reorganize them. In all of the social sciences, she argues, post-modernism repudiates representative democracy and plays havoc with the very meaning of "left-wing" and "right-wing." Rosenau also highlights how post-modernism has inspired a new generation of social movements, ranging from New Age sensitivities to Third World fundamentalism. In weighing its strengths and weaknesses, the author examines two major tendencies within post-modernism, the largely European, skeptical form and the predominantly Anglo-North-American form, which suggests alternative political, social, and cultural projects. She draws examples from anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, planning, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and women's studies, and provides a glossary of post-modern terms to assist the uninitiated reader with special meanings not found in standard dictionaries.
Postmodernism and Social Theory
Author: Steven Seidman
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 1992-04-08
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9781557862846
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.
