Krishan Kumar

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From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society (eBook, PDF)

New Theories of the Contemporary World

Beschreibung

The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter. * New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist * Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism * Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization.

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Autor

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).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sybex
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781405137614
• Artikelnr.: 38281059