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Postmodernism and the Social Sciences

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  • © 1992

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Editors:
  1. Joe Doherty

    1. University of St Andrews, UK

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  2. Elspeth Graham

    1. University of St Andrews, UK

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  3. Mo Malek

    1. University of St Andrews, UK

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Part of the book series: Communications and Culture (COMMCU)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The Context and Language of Postmodernism

    • Elspeth Graham, Joe Doherty, Mo Malek
    Pages 1-23

  3. Postmodern Anthropology? Or, an Anthropology of Postmodernity?

    • Richard Fardon
    Pages 24-38

  4. Social Science and Postmodern Spatialisations: Jameson’s Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping

    • Robert Shields
    Pages 39-56

  5. Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale

    • Neil Smith
    Pages 57-79

  6. Discourse Discourse: Social Psychology and Postmodernity

    • Ian Parker
    Pages 80-94

  7. Developmental Psychology and the Postmodern Child

    • Erica Burman
    Pages 95-110

  8. Postmodernity and the Globalisation of Technoscience: The Computer, Cognitive Science and War

    • John Bowers
    Pages 111-126

  9. Modernity, Postmodernism and International Relations

    • Nick Rengger, Mark Hoffman
    Pages 127-147

  10. Postmodernism and Economics

    • Sheila Dow
    Pages 148-161

  11. Postmodernism or Modernism?: Social Theory Revisited

    • Scott Lash
    Pages 162-178

  12. Cultural Theory, Philosophy and the Study of Human Affairs: Hot Heads and Cold Feet

    • John Haldane
    Pages 179-195

  13. Postmodern Horizons

    • Elspeth Graham, Joe Doherty
    Pages 196-220

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 221-253
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The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Recent challenges to Enlightenment thinking thus carry with them the potential or threat to transform the social sciences radically. Postmodernism and the Social Sciences examines the nature and potential of this postmodernist challenge in each of the major social sciences. Starting with the practices of particular disciplines and proceeding to matters of shared concern, the essays provide an accessible discussion of the contemporary impact of postmodernism on social scientific thought.

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  • University of St Andrews, UK

    Joe Doherty, Elspeth Graham, Mo Malek

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