Reconstructing postmodernism : critical debates / Jason L. Powell and Tim Owen, editors.
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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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.