Sociology after Postmodernism - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0803975147 ISBN 13: 9780803975149

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1997

Synopsis

Postmodernism is frequently described as dealing a death-blow to sociology. This book, however, argues that it is a mistake to conceive postmodernism in terms of a fatal attack upon what sociologists do.

The contributors locate the identity of sociology `after′ postmodernism as a contested site which opens up the possibility of re-imagining the enterprise of sociology. They show how this re-imagination might be conducted and trace some of the key potential consequences.

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About the Author

David Owen is lecturer in politics at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995).

CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE

Samanta Ashenden Birkbeck College University of London

Paul Connolly University of Ulster

Mitchell Dean Macquarrie University

Peter Jowers University of the West of England

Thomas Osborne University of Bristol

Ralph Schroeder Royal Holloway College University of London

Nigel South University of Essex

Sean Watson University of the West of England

Malcolm Waters University of Tasmania

Review

`For those of us who take the thesis of postmodernity seriously yet retain the empirical and theoretical apparatus of sociology, this book will be a very welcome addition to our libraries′ - Contemporary Sociology

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0803975147
• ISBN 13: 9780803975149
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 240
• Editor: Owen David