Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
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Agency (sociology)
Agnosticism
Anti-Americanism
Anti-capitalism
Anti-intellectualism
Antihumanism
Atheism
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Authoritarianism
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Censure
Centrism
Colonialism
Contingency (philosophy)
Critical theory
Criticism of democracy
Critique
Cultural imperialism
Cynicism (contemporary)
Deconstruction
Deregulation
Disenchantment
Economic planning
Economics
Economism
End of history
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Existentialism
Formal fallacy
Grand theory
Historical determinism
Humanities
Identity (social science)
Ideology
Instrumentalism
Jacques Derrida
Law and literature
Left-wing politics
Linguistic determinism
Linguistic system
Manifesto
Marxism
Marxist philosophy
Materialism
Metanarrative
Modernism
Modernity
Moral relativism
Neo-Marxism
Neocolonialism
Objectivity (philosophy)
Objectivity (science)
Obscurantism
Ontology
Opportunism
Oppression
Paradigm shift
Philosopher
Philosophy
Philosophy of history
Phonocentrism
Pluralism (political philosophy)
Political sociology
Positivism
Post-contemporary
Post-industrial society
Post-Marxism
Post-scarcity economy
Post-structuralism
Postmodern architecture
Postmodern literature
Postmodernism
Postmodernism (international relations)
Postmodernity
Postpositivism
Radicalism (historical)
Rationalization (sociology)
Regime theory
Relativism
Scarcity (social psychology)
Social engineering (political science)
Social science
Social theory
Social transformation
Sous rature
State of affairs (sociology)
Structuralism
Superiority (short story)
The Death of the Author
The End of Ideology
The Resistance to Theory
Theory of Forms
Western Marxism
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- ISBN 9780691023472
- Weight: 340g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 25 Nov 1991
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Post-modernism offers a revolutionary approach to the study of society: in questioning the validity of modern science and the notion of objective knowledge, this movement discards history, rejects humanism, and resists any truth claims. In this comprehensive assessment of post-modernism, Pauline Rosenau traces its origins in the humanities and describes how its key concepts are today being applied to, and are restructuring, the social sciences. Serving as neither an opponent nor an apologist for the movement, she cuts through post-modernism's often incomprehensible jargon in order to offer all readers a lucid exposition of its propositions. Rosenau shows how the post-modern challenge to reason and rational organization radiates across academic fields.
For example, in psychology it questions the conscious, logical, coherent subject; in public administration it encourages a retreat from central planning and from reliance on specialists; in political science it calls into question the authority of hierarchical, bureaucratic decision-making structures that function in carefully defined spheres; in anthropology it inspires the protection of local, primitive cultures from First World attempts to reorganize them. In all of the social sciences, she argues, post-modernism repudiates representative democracy and plays havoc with the very meaning of "left-wing" and "right-wing." Rosenau also highlights how post-modernism has inspired a new generation of social movements, ranging from New Age sensitivities to Third World fundamentalism. In weighing its strengths and weaknesses, the author examines two major tendencies within post-modernism, the largely European, skeptical form and the predominantly Anglo-North-American form, which suggests alternative political, social, and cultural projects.
She draws examples from anthropology, economics, geography, history, international relations, law, planning, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies, and women's studies, and provides a glossary of post-modern terms to assist the uninitiated reader with special meanings not found in standard dictionaries.
Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau is Professor of Management and Policy Sciences in the School of Public Health at the University of Texas/Houston.
