Postmodernism and the Social Sciences

Postmodernism and the Social Sciences PDF Author: Joe Doherty
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 134922183X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 263

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Book Description
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.