Reconstructing Postmodernism: Critical Debates
Published on 29. November 2013
20 pages
978-1-62081-102-3 (ISBN)
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There has been an array of literature on the notion of 'postmodernism' in social science literature in recent years. This exciting book focuses on three broad continuities: one, debunking the central theoretical tenets of postmodernism with reference to identity, methodology, governance and modernist theory; two, the book engages with current social issues and events in popular culture: for example, film; professional power, masculinity and terrorism; three, the book also rethinks postmodernism in light of under-researched variables of analysis of time and ageing, the 'body', 'biology' and 'choice'.
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Content
- Intro
- RECONSTRUCTING POSTMODERNISM:CRITICAL DEBATES
- RECONSTRUCTING POSTMODERNISM:CRITICAL DEBATES
- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION: RECONSTRUCTING POSTMODERNISM
- MAPPING OUT THE TERRAIN
- REFERENCES
- PART I : DECONSTRUCTING POSTMODERN EPISTOEMOLOGY
- Chapter 1: SELF-IDENTITY AND PERSONHOOD IN SOCIALANALYSIS: THE INADEQUACIES OF POSTMODERNISMAND SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
- INTRODUCTION
- THE POST-MODERN REGRESSION
- VARIETIES OF SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONISM
- POST-WITTGENSTEIN, GOFFMAN AND GIDDENS
- TOWARDS A NEW CONCEPTIONOF SELF-IDENTITY AND PERSONHOOD
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 2: COGNITIVE RELATIVISM:BETWEEN POSITIVISTIC AND RELATIVISTICTHINKING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
- INTRODUCTION
- 1. OBJECTIVITY AND THE ISSUE OF MEDIATION
- A) Anti-empiricism
- B) The Two Objectivities
- 2. THE POSTMODERN CRITIQUE OF REPRESENTATIONAND EMPIRICAL REFERENCE
- A) The Modern-postmodern Debate in Greek Historiography
- B) Avoiding Relativism and Essentialism
- 3. THE 'INTERNALITY' OF A DISCIPLINE'S SUBJECT MATTER
- A) On the Construction of a Discipline's Subject Matter
- B) In Defense of the Distinction between First- and Second-order SymbolicConstructs
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 3: AN EXCURSUS IN POST-POSTMODERNSOCIAL SCIENCE
- INTRODUCTION
- BEYOND THE POSTMODERN
- THE FOUR CARDINAL SINS OF THEORETICAL ANDMETHODOLOGICAL REASONING
- A METATHEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- A SUBSTANTIVE ILLUSTRATION: GOVERNANCE
- CONCLUDING OBSERVATIONS
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 4: POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORY AND SOCIOLOGY:ON SYMBOLIC EXCHANGE WITH A "DEAD" THEORY
- INTRODUCTION
- THE SOCIOLOGY OF CONSUMPTION
- THE "SPIRIT" OF POSTMODERN SOCIALTHEORY: SUBSTANTIVE ISSUES
- Liquidity
- Glocalization, Hybridization, and Creolization
- THE "SPIRIT" OF POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORY:EPISTEMOLOGICAL ISSUES19
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- PART II: POSTMODERNISM AND THE CONSTITUTION OF THE SOCIAL
- Chapter 5: THE POSTMODERN TERRORIST RISK:PLUS ÇA CHANGE, PLUS C'EST LA MEME CHOSE
- INTRODUCTION
- POSTMODERN TERRORISM: A RISK SOCIETY EMBLEM?
- POSTMODERN TERRORISM AND THE POLITICS OF RISK:THINKING 'WHAT IF?'
- THE COERCIVE STATE: GOVERNING THROUGH TERRORISM?
- TERRORISM, RISK AND REGULATION:IGNORING THE LESSONS OF HIS
- CONCLUSION
- Chapter 6: THE PERILS OF UNCERTAINTY: REFLECTIONSON THEORETICAL PRACTICEAND GRADUATE EDUCATION
- INTRODUCTION
- LOSS AND UNCERTAINTY IN SOCIAL THEORY
- EUROCENTRISM AND WESTERN SOCIAL THEORY
- SOCIAL THEORY AND THE "MASSES"
- IS SOCIAL THEORY POSSIBLE?
- CONFRONTING THEORETICAL CONTRADICTIONSIN THE PRACTICE OF DIALOGICAL EDUCATION
- NARRATIVES OF EDUCATIONAL PRACTICE
- CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND UNCERTAINTY IN EDUCATION
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 7: MASCULINITY AS A REPRODUCTION OFTRADITIONALISM, FEMINIST REACTION,AND EGALITARIANISM
- INTRODUCTION
- IDEOLOGY AND THE REPRODUCTION OF MASCULINITY
- STRENGTH THROUGH SELF REFLECTION
- TIME WE DEVOTE FOR SELF-REFLECTIONAND THE QUALITY OF THIS TIME
- TIME WE SPEND WITH OTHERS, AND THE RESPONSIVENESS OF THESEOTHERS TO OUR INVESTIGATION OF OURSELVES
- IDEAL TYPES DESCRIBE THE QUALITY OF MASCULINITY
- Traditionalism
- Anti-Traditional Reaction
- Egalitarianism
- The Reproduction of the Masculine Self
- TRADITIONALISM, ANTI-TRADITIONALISM, AND EGALITARIANISM ASQUARRIES FOR THE BUILDING BLOCKS OF THE MASCULINE SELF
- Macro Level: Keeping Building Blocks Politically Correct
- Micro Level: Where Individual Pragmatism Faces Institutionalized Dogmas
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 8: FILM, POSTMODERNISM AND THE SOCIOLOGICALIMAGINATION: EXPLORING THE POWEROF LOCAL STORIES IN SOUTHERN KOREAAND NORTHERN ENGLAND
- INTRODUCTION
- STORIES, GEOGRAPHIES AND CULTURES:SOUTHERN KOREA AND NORTHERN ENGLAND
- SOCIAL AND HISTORICAL CONTEXTS,TEXTUAL STYLE, AND MORAL JUDGEMENTS
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- PART III: RETHINKING THE BOUNDARIES AND POSSIBILITIES OF POSTMODERNISM
- Chapter 9: TEMPORALITY AND OLD AGE:A POSTMODERN CRITIQUE
- INTRODUCTION
- SYMBOLIC CONTROL AND TIME
- MANIFESTATIONS OF SYMBOLIC CONTROL
- Death and Anxiety
- Utility and Decline
- Role Theory and Meaning
- ALTERNATIVE TEMPORAL IMAGERY: BEYOND MECHANICISM
- EXPERIENTIAL TIME AND EMBODIED AGING
- Death and the Affirmation of Life
- Local Entropy and Redeploying Utility
- Meaning without Roles
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 10: UNDERSTANDING AGING BODIES: A POSTMODERNDIALOGUE ON BIO-MEDICINE, BODY ANDCULTURAL REPRESENTATIONS OF IDENTITY
- INTRODUCTION
- EXISTENTIAL BODIES
- TOWARDS A POSTMODERN GERONTOLOGY OF THE BODY
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 11: AFTER POSTMODERNISM:TOWARDS AN EVOLUTIONARY SOCIOLOGY
- INTRODUCTION
- THE SELF-REFERENTIAL OBJECTION
- DECORATIVE' SOCIOLOGY AND THE CULTURAL TURN
- GENETIC FATALISM AND THE OVERSOCIALISED GAZE
- INCORPORATING THE BIOLOGICAL VARIABLE
- CONCLUSION
- REFERENCES
- Chapter 12: (DIS)INTERRING POSTMODERNISMOR A CRITIQUE ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMYOF CONSUMER CHOICE
- INTRODUCTION
- ON THE PRODUCTION AND CONSUMPTION OF KNOWLEDGE
- THEORISING CONSUMER SOCIETY
- CONSUMER CHOICE: RHETORIC AND REALITY
- THE PUBLIC SPHERE AND CONSUMER CHOICE
- ON THE CONSEQUENCES OF CONSUMPTION
- CONSUMER CHOICE: EXCESS AND WASTE
- CONCLUDING REMARKS: CHOOSING DIFFERENTLY
- REFERENCES
- INDEX
