From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society

New Theories of the Contemporary World

Krishan Kumar (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

304 Seiten

2004 | 2nd edition
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-1-4051-1429-5 (ISBN)

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In the second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter, Krishan Kumar introduces and assesses the rival claims of three theories crucial to an understanding on contemporary social theory: the information society, post--Fordism, and post--modernism. .

The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter.

New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist

Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism

Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization.

Krishan Kumar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Since publishing the first edition of From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society, he has co-edited Public and Private in Thought and Practice (1987) and written 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001) and The Making of English National Identity (2003).

Preface to the Second Edition. Preface to First Edition..

1 Rethinking Modernity.

2 The Revival of Post-Industrial Theory..

3 The Information Society..

4 Fordism and Post-Fordism..

5 Modernity and Post-Modernity (1): The Idea of the Modern..

6 Modernity and Post-Modernity (2): The Idea of Post-Modernity..

7 Millennial Themes: Endings and Beginnings..

Notes.

References.

Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	11.10.2004
Verlagsort	Hoboken
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	445 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeine Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-4051-1429-0 / 1405114290
ISBN-13	978-1-4051-1429-5 / 9781405114295
Zustand	Neuware