Sociology after Postmodernism / Edition 1

by David Owen

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803975156
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	05/05/1997
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	240
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.50(d)

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
The Postmodern Challenge to Sociology - David Owen
CLASS
Inequality after Class - Malcolm Waters
GENDER
Feminism, Postmodernism and the Sociology of Gender - Samantha Ashenden
RACE AND ETHNICITY
Racism and Postmodernism: Towards a Theory of Practice - Paul Connolly
CRIMINOLOGY AND DEVIANCE
Late-Modern Criminology - Nigel South
‘Late' as in ‘Dead' or ‘Modern' as in ‘New'
LAW
Law, Politics and the Social Sciences - Alan Hunt
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
The Sociology of Science and Technology after Relativism - Ralph Schroeder
CULTURE AND MEDIA
Social Theory and Cultural Studies - Douglas Kellner
SEXUALITY
Sex after ‘Sexuality' - Arlene Stein
From Sexology to Post-Structuralism
AFFECTIVITY
Somatology - Sean Watson and Peter Jowers
Sociology and the Visceral
MEDICINE AND THE BODY
Body Amnesia - Comments on Corporeality - Thomas Osborne
HISTORY AND POLITICS
Sociology after Society - Mitchell Dean

Editorial Reviews

‘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

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