Sociology after Postmodernism

✍ Scribed by David Owen (ed.)

Publisher: SAGE
Year: 1997
Tongue: English
Leaves: 237
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 6
Notes on Contributors......Page 8
INTRODUCTION. The Postmodern Challenge to Sociology. David Owen......Page 10
CLASS. 1. Inequality after Class. Malcolm Waters......Page 32
GENDER. 2. Feminism, Postmodernism and the Sociology of Gender. Samantha Ashenden......Page 49
RACE AND ETHNICITY. 3. Racism and Postmodernism: Towards a Theory of Practice. Paul Connolly......Page 74
CRIMINOLOGY AND DEVIANCE. 4. Late-Modern Criminology: 'Late' as in 'Dead' or 'Modern' as in 'New'? Nigel South......Page 90
LAW. 5. Law, Politics and the Social Sciences. Alan Hunt......Page 112
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY. 6. The Sociology of Science and Technology after Relativism. Ralph Schroeder......Page 133
CULTURE AND MEDIA. 7. Social Theory and Cultural Studies. Douglas Kellner......Page 147
SEXUALITY. 8. Sex after 'Sexuality': From Sexology to Post-Structuralism. Arlene Stein......Page 167
AFFECTIVITY. 9. Somatology: Sociology and the Visceral. Sean Watson and Peter Jowers......Page 182
MEDICINE AND THE BODY. 10. Body Amnesia - Comments on Corporeality. Thomas Osborne......Page 197
HISTORY AND POLITICS. 11. Sociology after Society. Mitchell Dean......Page 214

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