{"product_id":"from-post-industrial-to-post-modern-society-isbn-9781405114295","title":"From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society","description":"The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cul class=\"noindent\"\u003e \u003cli\u003eNew edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExplores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003ePlaces the three key ideas within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization.\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Preface to the Second Edition. \u003cp\u003ePreface to First Edition..\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Rethinking Modernity.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 The Revival of Post-Industrial Theory..\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Information Society..\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Fordism and Post-Fordism..\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Modernity and Post-Modernity (1): The Idea of the Modern..\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Modernity and Post-Modernity (2): The Idea of Post-Modernity..\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Millennial Themes: Endings and Beginnings..\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex.\u003c\/p\u003e  “This superb book, which has been essential reading since its original publication, now includes a major new introductory chapter, covering theories of globalization and multiple modernity’s. Kumar manages to to be judicious and provocative, comprehensive and clear, and magisterial and readable. The book is an indispensable guide to these highly contested yet inescapable attempts to theorize modern societies.” \u003ci\u003eWilliam Outhwaite, University of Sussex\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e“From Post-Industrial to Post Modern Society has established itself as an incomparable classic of modern sociology. The second edition extends the range of the original text to address new problems of globalism, and thereby integrates the globalization debate into concerns about post-modernity. A singular achievement.” \u003ci\u003eBryan Turner, Cambrige University.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Krishan Kumar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Since publishing the first edition of \u003ci\u003eFrom Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society\u003c\/i\u003e, he has co-edited \u003ci\u003ePublic and Private in Thought and Practice\u003c\/i\u003e (1987) and written \u003ci\u003e1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals\u003c\/i\u003e (2001) and \u003ci\u003eThe Making of English National Identity \u003c\/i\u003e(2003). In the second edition of this classic study, Krishan Kumar introduces and assesses the rival claims of three theories crucial to an understanding of contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism. Explaining how these theories developed and why they have held such an appeal, the author provides the most readable and evenly-balanced account of three very different, but overlapping paradigms. In a new and substantial introduction, Kumar places the three key approaches within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization. \u003ci\u003eFrom Post Industrial to Post-Modern Society\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand contemporary theories of social, cultural, and economic change.","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989249310949,"sku":"NP9781405114295","price":42.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781405114295.jpg?v=1761783374","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/from-post-industrial-to-post-modern-society-isbn-9781405114295","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}