From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society
New Theories of the Contemporary World
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1995
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-18559-8 (ISBN)
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-18559-8 (ISBN)
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Beginning where "Prophecy and Progress" ended, this work by Krishan Kumar provides an introduction to three new theories of industrial society: the information society, post-Fordism, and postmodernism.
In the second edition of this classic study, Krishan Kumar introduces and assesses the rival claims of three theories crucial to an understanding of contemporary social theory: the information society; post-Fordism; and post-modernism. Explaining how these theories developed and why they have held such an appeal, the author provides the most readable and evenly-balanced account of three very different, but overlapping paradigms. In a new and substantial introduction, Kumar places the three key approaches within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization. From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary theories of social, cultural, and economic change.
In the second edition of this classic study, Krishan Kumar introduces and assesses the rival claims of three theories crucial to an understanding of contemporary social theory: the information society; post-Fordism; and post-modernism. Explaining how these theories developed and why they have held such an appeal, the author provides the most readable and evenly-balanced account of three very different, but overlapping paradigms. In a new and substantial introduction, Kumar places the three key approaches within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization. From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary theories of social, cultural, and economic change.
Krishan Kumar is William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. He was previously Professor of Social and Political Thought at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Since publishing the first edition of From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society (1995), he has co-edited Public and Private in Thought and Practice (1997) and written 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001) and The Making of English National Identity (2003).
1. Preface. 2. The Revival of Post-Industrial Theory. 3. The Information Society. 4. Fordism and Post-Fordism. 5. Modernity and Postmodernity. 6. Futures of Industrial Society.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.8.1995 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 442 g |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-631-18559-3 / 0631185593 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-18559-8 / 9780631185598 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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