Postmodernism and the Social Sciences (Communications and Culture) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0333534530 ISBN 13: 9780333534533

Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan, 1992

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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.

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The social sciences as we know them are developments of the Enlightenment, extensions of the conceptions and methods of Newtonian science. Recently a number of influential social theorists have brought the presuppositions of Enlightenment thinking under critical scrutiny and have called into question the basis of much social scientific thinking. Despite the seriousness of this postmodernist challenge, its nature and dimensions remain unclear especially to those in the modernist mainstream. The essays in this book are designed to call attention to the challenge, and in a manner accessible to those not so familiar with the more theoretical writings on postmodernism. They range widely over the social sciences and ask what the implications of postmodernist thinking are for the modernist disciplines of social anthropology, sociology, geography, social psychology, international relations and economics. An introductory essay provides a survey of the beginnings of postmodernism in literary theory and in the study of art and architecture and raises questions about the translation of the vocabulary of postmodernism into the social sciences. The following chapters then focus on practices distinctive to particular disciplines and explore the nature and potential of recent developments prompted by postmodernist thinking. The final two essays draw out and examine themes which recur throughout the book and which illustrate the common basis of many discussions of postmodernism. Postmodernism and the Social Sciences brings together a collection of important reflections on questions crucial to the direction of the social sciences in the coming decades.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1992
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0333534530
• ISBN 13: 9780333534533
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 264
• Herausgeber: Doherty Joe
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