Reconstructing postmodernism : critical debates /

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Imprint:	New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2007]
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Subject:	Postmodernism -- Social aspects. Sociology -- Philosophy. Postmodernism -- Social aspects. Sociology -- Philosophy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11125205

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Other authors / contributors:	Powell, Jason L., 1971- Owen, Tim, 1961-
ISBN:	9781620811023 1620811022 1600216382 9781600216381
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Description based on print version record.
Summary:	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 light of variables of analysis of time and ageing. 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; and, three - the book also rethinks postmodernism in light of under-researched variables of analysis of time and ageing, the 'body', 'biology' and 'choice'.
Other form:	Print version: Reconstructing postmodernism New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2007. 9781600216381 (hardcover)

Table of Contents:

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.

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