Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions

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Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Ros...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rosenau, Pauline Vaillancourt (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Social sciences > Philosophy.
Social movements.
Postmodernism > Social aspects.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Methodology.
social movements.
Mouvements sociaux.
Sciences sociales > Philosophie.
Postmodernisme > Aspect social.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS; ONE: Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity; TWO: Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader; THREE: Subverting the Subject; FOUR: Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space); FIVE: A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth; SIX: Repudiating Representation; SEVEN: Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives; EIGHT: Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science; NINE: Elements for an Assessment; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX.

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