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Reconstructing postmodernism : critical debates / Jason L. Powell and Tim Owen, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postmodernism--Social aspects.
- Postmodernism.
- Sociology--Philosophy.
- Sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- There 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'.
- Contents:
- Self-identity and personhood in social analysis : the inadequacies of postmodernism and social constructionism / Derek Layder
- Cognitive relativism : between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences / Nicos Mouzelis
- An excursus in post-postmodern social science / Roger Sibeon
- Postmodern social theory and sociology : on symbolic exchange with a "dead" theory / George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan
- The postmodern terrorist risk : plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose / Gabe Mythen
- The perils of uncertainty : reflections on theoretical practice and graduate education / Peter Leonard and Amanda Grenier
- Masculinity as a reproduction of traditionalism, feminist reaction, and egalitarianism / Andreas Schneider
- Film, postmodernism and the sociological imagination : exploring the power of local stories in southern Korea and northern England / Sung Kyung Kim and Rob Stones
- Temporality and old age : a postmodern critique / Steven L. Arxer, John W. Murphy and Linda Liska Belgrave
- Understanding aging bodies : a postmodern dialogue on bio-medicine, body and cultural representations of identity / Jason L. Powell and Azrini Wahidin
- After postmodernism : towards an evolutionary sociology / Tim Owen
- (Dis)interring postmodernism or a critique on the political economy of consumer choice / Barry Smart.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-62081-102-2
- OCLC:
- 778377478
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