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Postmodern Social Theory

By George Ritzer

Book information

Year
1996
ISBN
9780070530195, 007053019X
LCC
HM73 .R534 1997
Open Library ID
OL983375M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
6 MB (6141787 bytes)
Pages
149\149
Scanned
no
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

This text offers an historical sketch of the development of postmodern social theory, major criticisms of it, and recent efforts to move beyond it. It focuses on the work of such leading postmodernists as Michael Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and on contemporary alternatives/reactions/interventions by such theorists as Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck. American contributions by Daniel Bell and Frederic Jameson and the relationship between feminist and multiculturalist theory from a sociological perspective receives treatment. Ritzer discusses the implications postmodern social theory has for contemporary sociological theory and shows how it can be used to analyze contemporary consumer society.

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