The Resource Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Contents
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- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS; ONE: Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity; TWO: Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader; THREE: Subverting the Subject; FOUR: Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space); FIVE: A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth; SIX: Repudiating Representation; SEVEN: Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives; EIGHT: Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science; NINE: Elements for an Assessment; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Isbn
- 9781400820610
- Label
- Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
- Title
- Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences
- Title remainder
- Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Rosenau, Pauline Vaillancourt
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- dictionaries
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- Postmodernism
- Social sciences
- Social movements
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- POLITICAL SCIENCE
- Postmodernism
- Social movements
- Social sciences
- Label
- Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
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- online resource
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- cr
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- rdacarrier
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- text
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- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS; ONE: Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity; TWO: Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader; THREE: Subverting the Subject; FOUR: Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space); FIVE: A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth; SIX: Repudiating Representation; SEVEN: Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives; EIGHT: Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science; NINE: Elements for an Assessment; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Control code
- ocn699474631
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400820610
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
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- 22573/cttw850
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)699474631
- Label
- Post-Modernism and the Social Sciences : Insights, Inroads, and Intrusions
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; PREFACE; GLOSSARY OF POST-MODERN TERMS; ONE: Into the Fray: Crisis, Continuity, and Diversity; TWO: Abandoning the Author, Transforming the Text, and Re-orienting the Reader; THREE: Subverting the Subject; FOUR: Humbling History, Transforming Time, and Garbling Geography (Space); FIVE: A Theory of Theory and the Terrorism of Truth; SIX: Repudiating Representation; SEVEN: Epistemology and Methodology: Post-Modern Alternatives; EIGHT: Post-Modern Political Orientations and Social Science; NINE: Elements for an Assessment; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
- Control code
- ocn699474631
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (250 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781400820610
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/cttw850
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)699474631
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