From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society: New Theories of the Contemporary World, Edition 2
Feb 2009 · Sold by John Wiley & Sons
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304
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About this ebook
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.
About the author
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).
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