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Reconstructing postmodernism : critical debates /

Debunking the central theoretical tenets of postmodernism with reference to identity, methodology, governance and modernist theory, this book engages with social issues and events in popular culture - for example, film; professional power, masculinity and terrorism. It rethinks postmodernism in ligh...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Powell, Jason L., 1971-, Owen, Tim, 1961-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2007]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.