Postmodernism and Social Research

* What is postmodernism?* How can it be used to develop social research?* How can we do social research in more creative ways?

The social sciences are still predominantly modernist disciplines and, as such, products of the Enlightenment. Recent challenges to Enlightenment thinking thus

First published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

V.1 Foundational essays -- V.2 Critical Texts -- V.3 Disciplinary texts: Humanities and social sciences -- V.4 Legal studies, psychoanalytic studies, visual art

Examines the conflict between modern and postmodern theories in sociology and attempts to bridge the divide between them.

Bringing together the work of over eighty leading academics and researchers worldwide to produce the definitive reference and research tool for the social scien

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'Introduction to Social Research' presents the essential elements of both qualitative and quantitative approaches for conducting empirical research in the socia

This book argues that we have moved into a new cultural period, automodernity, which represents a social, psychological, and technological reaction to postmoder

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