Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical DebatesNova Publishers, 2007 - 200 páginas 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; three, the book also rethinks postmodernism in light of under-researched variables of analysis of time and ageing, the 'body', 'biology' and 'choice'. |
Contenido
| 3 | |
| 15 | |
An Excursus in Postpostmodern Social Science | 29 |
Postmodern Social Theory and Sociology On Symbolic Exchange with a Dead Theory | 41 |
Postmodernism and the Constitution of the Social | 59 |
The Postmodern Terrorist Risk Plus ÇA Change Plus Cest la Mẽme Chose | 61 |
The Perils of Uncertainty Reflections on Theoretical Practice and Graduate Education | 77 |
Masculinity as a Reproduction of Traditionalism Feminist Reaction and Egalitarianism | 89 |
Film Postmodernism and the Sociological Imagination Exploring the Power of Local Stories in Southern Korea and Northern England | 103 |
RETHINKING THE BOUNDARIES AND POSSIBILITIES OF POSTMODERNISM | 123 |
Temporality and Old Age A Postmodern Critique | 125 |
Understanding Aging Bodies A Postmodern Dialogue on BioMedicine Body and Cultural Representations of Identity | 141 |
After Postmodernism Towards an Evolutionary Sociology | 153 |
Disinterring postmodernism or a Critique on the Political Economy of Consumer Choice | 167 |
Index | 187 |
Términos y frases comunes
actors ageing body agency analysis argue associated Baudrillard Bauman behaviour behavioural genetics Bourdieu chapter claims concept consumer choice consumption contemporary context contingent critical critique cultural deconstruction discourses empirical epistemological Evolutionary Psychology example Featherstone film forms Foucault framework Freegans gender genes genetic George Ritzer gerontology Giddens global glocalization governance human ibid ideas identity ideology II-sc impact individual influence institutions interaction knowledge Korean language Layder London Lyotard masculinity means metanarratives metatheoretical modern modernist Mouzelis Mythen narratives norms notion Nova Science Publishers objective ontology pataphysics persons perspective political Port Wine post-postmodern postmodern social theory postmodern terrorism postmodern theory postmodernists Powell practices production Rafe reductionism reference reflective relativism Ridley risk society Ritzer role Routledge Sage self-identity sense Sibeon significant social constructionism social reality social science sociology structure symbolic constructs temporal terrorist theoretical theorists Tim Owen traditional University Press Wahidin Zygmunt Bauman
Pasajes populares
Página 9 - I assume that the proper study of interaction is not the individual and his psychology, but rather the syntactical relations among the acts of different persons mutually present to one another.
Página 105 - In other words, schizophrenic experience is an experience of isolated, disconnected, discontinuous material signifiers which fail to link up into a coherent sequence. The schizophrenic thus does not know personal identity in our sense, since our feeling of identity depends on our sense of the persistence of the "I" and the "me
Página 66 - America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof— the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.
Página 142 - Deep old age is personally and socially disturbing because it holds out the prospect of the loss of some or all of these controls. Degrees of loss impair the capacity to be counted as a competent adult. Indeed, the failure of bodily controls can point to a more general loss of self-image; to be ascribed the status of a competent adult person depends upon the capacity to control urine and faeces.
Página 144 - In the Penal Colony" inscribes itself unintelligibly on the flesh of the accused. The question is not: what meaning does that inscription carry within it, but what cultural apparatus arranges this meeting between instrument and body, what interventions into this ritualistic repetition are possible? The "real" and the "sexually factic" are phantasmatic constructions — illusions of substance — that bodies are compelled to approximate, but never can.