Postmodern Social Theory

Author : George Ritzer
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Social Theory written by George Ritzer and published by McGraw-Hill Humanities, Social Sciences & World Languages. This book was released on 1997 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816611737
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postmodern Condition written by Jean-François Lyotard and published by U of Minnesota Press. This book was released on 1984 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book it explores science and technology, makes connections between these epistemic, cultural, and political trends, and develops profound insights into the nature of our postmodernity.

Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458795
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Postmodern Turn written by Steven Seidman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1994-11-25 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Postmodern Turn gathers together in one volume some of the most important statements of the postmodern approach to human studies. In addressing postmodern social theory and emphasising the social role of knowledge, this book abandons the disciplinary boundaries separating the sciences and the humanities. The first collection of its kind, it provides the classic essays of authors such as Lyotard, Haraway, Foucault and Rorty. Contributors include well-known theorists in the fields of sociology, anthropology, women's and gay studies, philosophy, and history.

Author : Norman K Denzin
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780803985162
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Images of Postmodern Society written by Norman K Denzin and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 1991-09-26 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By using a series of studies of contemporary mainstream Hollywood movies - Blue Velvet, Wall Street, Crimes and Misdemeanors, When Harry Met Sally, sex lies and videotape, Do the Right Thing - Norman K Denzin explores the tension between ideas of the postmodern, and traditional ways of analyzing society. The discussion moves between two forms of text: social theory and cinematic representations of contemporary life. Denzin analyzes the ideas of society embedded in poststructuralism, postmodernism, feminism, cultural studies and Marxism through the ideas of key theorists (Mills, Baudrillard, Barthes, Habermas, Jameson, Bourdieu, Derrida and others). He relates these ideas to the problematic of the postmodern self as e

Author : Edward W. Soja
Publisher : Verso
ISBN 13 : 9780860919360
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Geographies written by Edward W. Soja and published by Verso. This book was released on 1989 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by one of America's foremost geographers, Postmodern Geographies contests the tendency, still dominant in most social science, to reduce human geography to a reflective mirror, or, as Marx called it, an "unnecessary complication." Beginning with a powerful critique of historicism and its constraining effects on the geographical imagination, Edward Soja builds on the work of Foucault, Berger, Giddens, Berman, Jameson and, above all, Henri Lefebvre, to argue for a historical and geographical materialism, a radical rethinking of the dialectics of space, time and social being. Soja charts the respatialization of social theory from the still unfolding encounter between Western Marxism and modern geography, through the current debates on the emergence of a postfordist regime of "flexible accumulation." The postmodern geography of Los Angeles, exposed in a provocative pair of essays, serves as a model in his account of the contemporary struggle for control over the social production of space.

Author : Nicos P. Mouzelis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521515858
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing written by Nicos P. Mouzelis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the conflict between modern and postmodern theories in sociology and attempts to bridge the divide between them.

Author : Steven Best
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349217182
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Theory written by Steven Best and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1991-11-15 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An introduction to and critique of the latest trends in critical theory.

Author : Linda Nicholson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521475716
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Social Postmodernism written by Linda Nicholson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-09-14 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Postmodernism defends a postmodern perspective anchored in the politics of the new social movements. The volume preserves the focus on the politics of the body, race, gender, and sexuality as elaborated in postmodern approaches. But these essays push postmodern analysis in a particular direction: toward a social postmodernism which integrates the micro-social concerns of the new social movements with an institutional and cultural analysis in the service of a transformative political vision.

Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781557862846
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and Social Theory written by Steven Seidman and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1992-04-08 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781557865076
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Contested Knowledge written by Steven Seidman and published by Wiley-Blackwell. This book was released on 1994 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contested Knowledge is a sociological theory text designed for undergraduate or graduate courses. From the classical sociologists (Durkheim, Marx and Weber), to contemporary social theories and movements, including feminism, poststructuralism, African-American thought and queer theory), Professor Seidman presents his approach to the tradition of sociological theory and its established canon. Combining social analysis and moral advocacy, Contested Knowledge shows how social theory can work within the public, political sphere and can contribute to the making of a better world.