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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.
Sommario
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
Info autore
David Owen is lecturer in politics at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995).
CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
Samanta Ashenden Birkbeck College University of London
Paul Connolly University of Ulster
Mitchell Dean Macquarrie University
Peter Jowers University of the West of England
Thomas Osborne University of Bristol
Ralph Schroeder Royal Holloway College University of London
Nigel South University of Essex
Sean Watson University of the West of England
Malcolm Waters University of Tasmania
Riassunto
A guide to transformations in sociological thinking that provides a systematic assessment of the strengths and weaknesses of postmodernism for sociology. Postmodernism is presented as a stimulus for sociologists to reconsider some of their central tenets and practices.
