Postmodern American sociology : a response to the aesthetic challenge / Jongryul Choi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Choi, Jongryul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Postmodernism--Social aspects.

Postmodernism.

Sociology--Philosophy.

Sociology.

Physical Description:

viii, 245 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2004]

Summary:

Postmodern American Sociology views the modern, the postmodern, and the relationship between the two in terms of the three paradigms of knowledge: science, morality and aesthetics. According to author Jongryul Choi, postmodernism maintains that ontology, epistemology and ethics/politics in the postmodern era have been aestheticized.

Contents:

2 The Modern as the Scientization and Moralization of Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics/Politics 11

3 The Postmodern as the Aestheticization of Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics/Politics 51

4 Vulnerability of Sociology to the Aesthetic Challenge 109

5 The Emergence of Postmodern American Sociology as a Response to the Aesthetic Challenge 163

6 Conclusion: Further Implications of Postmodern American Sociology 215.

Notes:

Based on the author's thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 2002.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-239) and index.

ISBN:

0761828133

0761828141

OCLC:

55705798