Contemplating a Postmodern Sociology

Genealogy, Limits and Critique

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3311374
AutoresGeorge Pavlich (0000-0003-1300-1507, autor de correspondencia)
Año1995
Volumen43
Número3
Páginas548-572
Fecha de publicación1995-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Sociological Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0261 • E-ISSN: 1467-954X
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1111/j.1467-954x.1995.tb00615.x
OpenAlexW2093399166
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas37

As its title suggests, this paper explores certain directions a specifically postmodern sociology (rather than say a sociology of postmodernism) might take. It reinterprets Gouldner's prescient warnings of a crisis in 'academic' sociology as an expression of despair within modern sociology. In particular, three important 'contradictions' are examined as possible points of departure for a postmodern sociological discourse. Foucault's genealogical approach, it is argued, is useful in helping to orientate any attempts to develop a sociology of this kind. The analysis concludes by anticipating possible objections, showing how these might profitably be incorporated into future enquiries. The aim of the paper is not to offer concrete enunciations for a postmodern sociology, but to develop more modest rules of thumb through which such a discourse might be erected

Epistemology · Historical sociology · Postmodernism · Social science · Sociology · Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Philosophy · Social and Cultural Dynamics