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Title: |
Reconstructing Postmodernism |
| Sub-title: |
Critical Debates |
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| Edited by: |
Jason L Powell, Tim Owen |
| ISBN10-13: |
1600216382 : 9781600216381 |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| Size: |
180x260mm |
| Pages: |
200 |
| Weight: |
.620 Kg. |
| Published: |
Nova Science Publishers, Inc (US) - September 2007 |
| List Price: |
137.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 1 |
| Subjects: |
Cultural studies : Social theory |
| 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'. |
| Table of Contents: |
| Introduction: Reconstructing Postmodernism; Self-identity & Personhood in Social Analysis: The Inadequacies of Postmodernism and Social Constructionism; Cognitive Relativism: Between Positivistic and Relativistic Thinking in the Social Sciences; An Excursus in Post-Post-modern Social Science; Post-modern Social Theory and Sociology: On Symbolic Exchange with a "Dead" Theory; Risk and Post-modern Approaches to Terrorism: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose'; The Perils of Uncertainty: reflections on theoretical practice and graduate education; Masculinity as a Reproduction of Traditionalism, Feminist Reaction, and Egalitarianism; Film, Postmodernism and the Sociological Imagination: Exploring the Power of Local Stories in Southern Korea and Northern England; Temporality, Old Age and Time: A Post-modern Critique; Understanding Ageing Bodies: A Post-modern Dialogue on Bio-Medicine, Body and Cultural representations of identity; After Postmodernism: Towards an Evolutionary Sociology; (Dis)interring Postmodernism or a Critique of the Political Economy of Consumer Choice; Index. |
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