01608nam a22002177a 4500 20260420115157.0 260416b |||||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780521731539 Texual RTl RTL RTL Y:6 P8 Mouzelis, Nicos P. 1234895 Modern and postmodern social theorizing Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2008 xiii, 311p. Includes bibliographical references and index There is a growing conflict between modern and postmodern social theorists. The latter reject modern approaches as economistic, essentialist and often leading to authoritarian policies. Modernists criticize postmodern approaches for their rejection of holistic conceptual frameworks which facilitate an overall picture of how social wholes (organizations, communities, nation-states, etc.) are constituted, reproduced and transformed. They believe the rejection of holistic methodologies leads to social myopia - a refusal to explore critically the type of broad problems that classical sociology deals with. This book attempts to bridge the divide between these two conflicting perspectives and proposes a novel holistic framework which is neither reductionist/economistic nor essentialist. Modern and Postmodern Social Theorizing will appeal to scholars and students of social theory and of social sciences in general. Postmodernism-Social aspects 1234896 Sociology-Methodology 1234897 Sociology-Philosophy 1234898 CC TB 0 Y:6 P8 1848269 1848269 0 0 CC 0 0 RTL RTL 2026-04-16 0 Y:6 P8 RT1528766 2026-04-16 10:01:00 2026-04-16 TB