1st Edition

Postmodernism And Social Inquiry

By David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana Copyright 1995
    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    272 Pages
    by Routledge

    This introduction to postmodernism offers a comprehensive examination of postmodern theory and its application to the study of society. It surveys the work of theorists and explores the potential and limits of postmodern analysis across key areas of development, including deconstruction, semiotics, the new ethnography and feminist theory. This guide should be suitable as an undergraduate text for social and cultural theory courses and should appeal to students of social research methods.

    Chapter 1 Postmodernism in the Social Sciences, David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana; Part I Postmodern Theories of Society; Chapter 2 Foucault, Postmodernism, and Social Theory, Steven Best; Chapter 3 Postmodernism and Antifoundationalsim, David Ashley; Chapter 4 North American Theories of Postmodern Culture, David R. Dickens; Chapter 5 Postmodernism and Feminism, Sondra Farganis; Chapter 6 The Future of Social Theory and the Limits of Postmodern Critique, Robert J. Antonio, Douglas Kellner; Part II Postmodern Research Methods; Chapter 7 Semiotics and Postmodernism, M. Gottdiener; Chapter 8 Postmodernism and Deconstructionism, Norman K. Denzin; Chapter 9 Ethnographic Trends in the Postmodern Era, Andrea Fontana; Chapter 10 The Postmodernism That Failed, Robert Goldman, Steven Papson;

    Biography

    David R. Dickens, Andrea Fontana, Fred Dallmayr