Postmodernism and the Social Sciences

✍ Scribed by Joe Doherty, Elspeth Graham, Mo Malek (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 1992
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 263
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: The Context and Language of Postmodernism....Pages 1-23
Postmodern Anthropology? Or, an Anthropology of Postmodernity?....Pages 24-38
Social Science and Postmodern Spatialisations: Jameson’s Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping....Pages 39-56
Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale....Pages 57-79
Discourse Discourse: Social Psychology and Postmodernity....Pages 80-94
Developmental Psychology and the Postmodern Child....Pages 95-110
Postmodernity and the Globalisation of Technoscience: The Computer, Cognitive Science and War....Pages 111-126
Modernity, Postmodernism and International Relations....Pages 127-147
Postmodernism and Economics....Pages 148-161
Postmodernism or Modernism?: Social Theory Revisited....Pages 162-178
Cultural Theory, Philosophy and the Study of Human Affairs: Hot Heads and Cold Feet....Pages 179-195
Postmodern Horizons....Pages 196-220
Back Matter....Pages 221-253

✦ Subjects

Social Theory;Economic Theory/Quantitative Economics/Mathematical Methods;Cultural Studies;General Psychology;Postmodern Philosophy