Kumar From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society

New Theories of the Contemporary World
2. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3761-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten, E-Book

The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new andsubstantial opening chapter.
* New edition of a classic study by a leading socialtheorist
* Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary socialtheory: the information society, post-Fordism, andpost-modernism
* Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporarydiscourse on globalization.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kumar, Krishan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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 ofPost-Modernity..
7 Millennial Themes: Endings and Beginnings..
Notes.
References.
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

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).