Postmodern Western Sociological Theory (Modern Sociology Library)

Author: Liu Shaojie
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Publish Date: 2002-04-01
Features: This book reveals the contradiction between the theoretical commitments of modern sociology to empirical and holistic research and its adherence to the theoretical principles of empiricism and objectivity. It discusses the profound changes in knowledge base, reality base, modes of thinking, and discourse patterns from modern sociology to postmodern sociology, as well as their inherent shortcomings. Drawing on ethnomethodology, the theory of the everyday life world, and other contemporary popular sociological and social theories, it proposes a solution to the contradiction between the theoretical commitments and principles of sociology by starting from the everyday life world, thereby achieving new development for sociology under the new historical conditions.