Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical DebatesNova Publishers, 2007 - 200 páginas 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'. |
Índice
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Cognitive Relativism Between Positivistic and Relativistic Thinking in the Social Sciences | 15 |
An Excursus in Postpostmodern Social Science | 29 |
Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology On Symbolic Exchange with a Dead Theory | 41 |
Postmodernism and the Constitution of the Social | 59 |
The Postmodern Terrorist Risk Plus ÇA Change Plus Cest la Mẽme Chose | 61 |
The Perils of Uncertainty Reflections on Theoretical Practice and Graduate Education | 77 |
Masculinity as a Reproduction of Traditionalism Feminist Reaction and Egalitarianism | 89 |
Film Postmodernism and the Sociological Imagination Exploring the Power of Local Stories in Southern Korea and Northern England | 103 |
RETHINKING THE BOUNDARIES AND POSSIBILITIES OF POSTMODERNISM | 123 |
Temporality and Old Age A Postmodern Critique | 125 |
Understanding Aging Bodies A Postmodern Dialogue on BioMedicine Body and Cultural Representations of Identity | 141 |
After Postmodernism Towards an Evolutionary Sociology | 153 |
Disinterring postmodernism or a Critique on the Political Economy of Consumer Choice | 167 |
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Términos y frases comunes
actors ageing body agency analysis argue associated Baudrillard Bauman behaviour behavioural genetics Bourdieu chapter claims concept consumer choice consumption contemporary context contingent critical critique cultural deconstruction discourses empirical epistemological Evolutionary Psychology example Featherstone film forms Foucault framework Freegans gender genes genetic George Ritzer gerontology Giddens global glocalization governance human ibid ideas identity ideology II-sc impact individual influence institutions interaction knowledge Korean language Layder London Lyotard masculinity means metanarratives metatheoretical modern modernist Mouzelis Mythen narratives norms notion Nova Science Publishers objective ontology pataphysics persons perspective political Port Wine post-postmodern postmodern social theory postmodern terrorism postmodern theory postmodernists Powell practices production Rafe reductionism reference reflective relativism Ridley risk society Ritzer role Routledge Sage self-identity sense Sibeon significant social constructionism social reality social science sociology structure symbolic constructs temporal terrorist theoretical theorists Tim Owen traditional University Press Wahidin Zygmunt Bauman