Postmodernism and Social Theory: The Debate over General Theory - Softcover

Seidman, Steven

 
9781557862846: Postmodernism and Social Theory: The Debate over General Theory
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1557862842 ISBN 13: 9781557862846
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons, 1992

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Steven Seidman, Professor of Sociology at State University of New York at Albany, writes extensively in the areas of social theory, cultural sociology and sexual politics. He also wrote Contested Knowledge .

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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.

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Verlag
John Wiley & Sons
Erscheinungsdatum
1992
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1557862842
ISBN 13 
9781557862846
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
2
Anzahl der Seiten
388
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