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Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences

Author : Pauline Marie Rosenau
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400820618
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences written by Pauline Marie Rosenau and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1991-11-05 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields. For example, in psychology it questions the conscious, logical, coherent subject; in public administration it encourages a retreat from central planning and from reliance on specialists; in political science it calls into question the authority of hierarchical, bureaucratic decision-making structures that function in carefully defined spheres; in anthropology it inspires the protection of local, primitive cultures from First World attempts to reorganize them. In all of the social sciences, she argues, post-modernism repudiates representative democracy and plays havoc with the very meaning of "left-wing" and "right-wing." Rosenau also highlights how post-modernism has inspired a new generation of social movements, ranging from New Age sensitivities to Third World fundamentalism. In weighing its strengths and weaknesses, the author examines two major tendencies within post-modernism, the largely European, skeptical form and the predominantly Anglo-North-American form, which suggests alternative political, social, and cultural projects. She draws examples from anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, planning, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and women's studies, and provides a glossary of post-modern terms to assist the uninitiated reader with special meanings not found in standard dictionaries.

Postmodernism and the Social Sciences

Author : Joe Doherty
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 134922183X
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and the Social Sciences written by Joe Doherty and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Recent challenges to Enlightenment thinking thus carry with them the potential or threat to transform the social sciences radically. Postmodernism and the Social Sciences examines the nature and potential of this postmodernist challenge in each of the major social sciences. Starting with the practices of particular disciplines and proceeding to matters of shared concern, the essays provide an accessible discussion of the contemporary impact of postmodernism on social scientific thought.

The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences

Author : Simon Susen
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137318236
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book The ‘Postmodern Turn’ in the Social Sciences written by Simon Susen and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-23 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simon Susen examines the impact of the 'postmodern turn' on the contemporary social sciences. On the basis of an innovative five-dimensional approach, this study provides a systematic, comprehensive, and critical account of the legacy of the 'postmodern turn', notably in terms of its continuing relevance in the twenty-first century.

Postmodernism and the Social Sciences

Author : Robert Hollinger
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and the Social Sciences written by Robert Hollinger and published by SAGE Publications, Incorporated. This book was released on 1994-08-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The major themes of postmodernist writing are demystified in this introductory text. Robert Hollinger reviews key postmodern discussions on critical topics such as values, identity, and the self and society. He compares postmodern thinking with that of the enlightenment project, modernism, modernity, Marxism and Critical Theory. This, together with his treatment of Foucault, Lyotard, Baudrillard, Derrida, Deleuze, Guattari and other leading postmodern theorists, provides an excellent introduction to modern social theory.

Fashionable Nonsense

Author : Alan Sokal
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466862408
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Fashionable Nonsense written by Alan Sokal and published by Picador. This book was released on 2014-01-14 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in Social Text--an influential academic journal of cultural studies--touting the deep similarities between quantum gravitational theory and postmodern philosophy. Soon thereafter, the essay was revealed as a brilliant parody, a catalog of nonsense written in the cutting-edge but impenetrable lingo of postmodern theorists. The event sparked a furious debate in academic circles and made the headlines of newspapers in the U.S. and abroad. In Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science, Sokal and his fellow physicist Jean Bricmont expand from where the hoax left off. In a delightfully witty and clear voice, the two thoughtfully and thoroughly dismantle the pseudo-scientific writings of some of the most fashionable French and American intellectuals. More generally, they challenge the widespread notion that scientific theories are mere "narrations" or social constructions.

Postmodernism and Social Research

Author : Mats Alvesson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism and Social Research written by Mats Alvesson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an overview of postmodern themes, evaluates the possibilities and dangers of postmodernist thinking and develops ideas on how a selective, sceptical incorporation of postmodernism can make social research more conscious about problems and pitfalls, and more creative in working with empirical material (so called data). A reflexive orientation runs throughout the book, which addresses themes such as how to understand the individual in research, how to deal with the knowledge/power connection, how to relate to language and how to unpack rather than take for granted socially dominant categories in research work. One chapter addresses the research interview in the light of postmodernist concerns about the naivety of assuming that the interviewee is simply an informant, a truth-teller authentically expressing his or her experiences and meaning. Other chapters address issues of voice, interpretation, writing and reflexivity. The book includes a range of empirical illustrations of how postmodernist ideas can inspire social research, and in all it represents a valuable text for students and researchers alike.

Postmodernism And Social Inquiry

Author : David R. Dickens
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136990437
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (369 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism And Social Inquiry written by David R. Dickens and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This introduction to postmodernism offers a comprehensive examination of postmodern theory and its application to the study of society. It surveys the work of theorists and explores the potential and limits of postmodern analysis across key areas of development, including deconstruction, semiotics, the new ethnography and feminist theory. This guide should be suitable as an undergraduate text for social and cultural theory courses and should appeal to students of social research methods.

Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn

Author : Dorothea Olkowski
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253001129
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Postmodern Philosophy and the Scientific Turn written by Dorothea Olkowski and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-23 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can come of a scientific engagement with postmodern philosophy? Some scientists have claimed that the social sciences and humanities have nothing to contribute, except perhaps peripherally, to their research. Dorothea E. Olkowski shows that the historic link between science and philosophy, mathematics itself, plays a fundamental role in the development of the worldviews that drive both fields. Focusing on language, its expression of worldview and usage, she develops a phenomenological account of human thought and action to explicate the role of philosophy in the sciences. Olkowski proposes a model of phenomenology, both scientific and philosophical, that helps make sense of reality and composes an ethics for dealing with unpredictability in our world.

Postmodernism and Social Theory

Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN 13 : 9781557862846
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (628 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.

Social Postmodernism

Author : Linda Nicholson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521475716
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (757 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.

The Postmodern Condition

Author : Jean-François Lyotard
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
ISBN 13 : 9780816611737
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (117 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.

Archaeology beyond Postmodernity

Author : Andrew M. Martin
Publisher : AltaMira Press
ISBN 13 : 0759123586
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (591 download)

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Download or read book Archaeology beyond Postmodernity written by Andrew M. Martin and published by AltaMira Press. This book was released on 2013-07-19 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the last decade, a new conception of culture has emerged in sociology, out of the ashes of modernism and post-modernism, that has the potential to radically change how we think about cultural objects and groups in archaeology. Archaeology beyond Postmodernity re-evaluates current interpretive and methodological tools and adapts them to the new position. Many examples are given from Western and indigenous sciences to illustrate this different understanding of science and culture. In addition, several case studies demonstrate how it can be applied to interpret historic and prehistoric cultures.

Work, Postmodernism and Organization

Author : Philip Hancock
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 9780761959441
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (594 download)

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Download or read book Work, Postmodernism and Organization written by Philip Hancock and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2001-05-02 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Work, Postmodernism and Organization provides a wide-ranging and very accessible introduction to postmodern theory and its relevance for the cultural world of the work organization. The book provides a critical review of the debates that have shaped organization theory over the past decade, making clear the meaning and significance of postmodern ideas for contemporary organization theory and practice. Work, Postmodernism and Organization will provide valuable material to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of organization theory, organizational behaviour, industrial sociology, and more general business, management and sociology courses.

Metamodernism

Author : Jason Ananda Josephson Storm
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022678665X
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Metamodernism written by Jason Ananda Josephson Storm and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2021-07-20 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opening -- Part I. Metarealism. How the real world became a fable, or, The realities of social construction -- Part II. Process social ontology. Concepts in disintegration & strategies for demolition ; Process social ontology ; Social kinds -- Part III. Hylosemiotics. Hylosemiotics : the discourse of things -- Part IV. Knowledge and value. Zetetic knowledge ; The revaluation of values -- Conclusion : becoming metamodern.

New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory after Postmodernism

Author : R. Samuels
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230104185
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book New Media, Cultural Studies, and Critical Theory after Postmodernism written by R. Samuels and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmodernity. In fact, by showing how individual autonomy is now being generated through technological and cultural automation, Samuels posits that we must rethink modernity and postmodernity.

The Postmodern Turn

Author : Steven Seidman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458795
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 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.

Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture'

Author : Adam Katz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429977751
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Postmodernism And The Politics Of 'Culture' written by Adam Katz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Postmodernism and the Politics of 'Culture' is a comparative critical analysis of the political and intellectual ambitions of postmodernist critical theory and the academic discipline of cultural studies. Katz's polemical aim is to show that cultural studies comes up short in both areas, because its practitioners focus on too-narrow issues-primarily, celebrating the folkways of micro-communities-while denying the very possibility of studying, understanding, and changing society in any comprehensive way and to any universally beneficial purpose. He argues that scholars and activists alike would do well to make use of the analytical tools of postmodernist critical theory, whose practitioners acknowledge the political significance of the differences between social groups, but do not consider them to be unbridgeable, and so seek to develop a set of practices for creating a truly inclusive, truly democratic public sphere.