Sociology After PostmodernismDavid Owen 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
Inequality after Class | 23 |
Feminism Postmodernism and the Sociology of Gender | 40 |
RACE AND ETHNICITY | 65 |
CRIMINOLOGY AND DEVIANCE | 81 |
Law Politics and the Social Sciences | 103 |
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | 124 |
CULTURE AND MEDIA | 138 |
From Sexology to PostStructuralism | 158 |
AFFECTIVITY | 173 |
MEDICINE AND THE BODY | 188 |
HISTORY AND POLITICS | 205 |
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