Postmodernism and the Social Sciences

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-x

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2. Introduction: The Context and Language of Postmodernism

   • Elspeth Graham, Joe Doherty, Mo Malek

   Pages 1-23

3. Postmodern Anthropology? Or, an Anthropology of Postmodernity?

   • Richard Fardon

   Pages 24-38

4. Social Science and Postmodern Spatialisations: Jameson’s Aesthetic of Cognitive Mapping

   • Robert Shields

   Pages 39-56

5. Geography, Difference and the Politics of Scale

   • Neil Smith

   Pages 57-79

6. Discourse Discourse: Social Psychology and Postmodernity

   • Ian Parker

   Pages 80-94

7. Developmental Psychology and the Postmodern Child

   • Erica Burman

   Pages 95-110

8. Postmodernity and the Globalisation of Technoscience: The Computer, Cognitive Science and War

   • John Bowers

   Pages 111-126

9. Modernity, Postmodernism and International Relations

   • Nick Rengger, Mark Hoffman

   Pages 127-147

10. Postmodernism and Economics

    • Sheila Dow

    Pages 148-161

11. Postmodernism or Modernism?: Social Theory Revisited

    • Scott Lash

    Pages 162-178

12. Cultural Theory, Philosophy and the Study of Human Affairs: Hot Heads and Cold Feet

    • John Haldane

    Pages 179-195

13. Postmodern Horizons

    • Elspeth Graham, Joe Doherty

    Pages 196-220

14. Back Matter

    Pages 221-253

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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.

• anthropology
• cognitive science
• economics
• postmodernism
• psychology
• social theory

• University of St Andrews, UK

  Joe Doherty, Elspeth Graham, Mo Malek

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