Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-280) and indexes.
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1. Postmodern Social Theory, Sociology, and Sociological Theory -- 2. The Development of Postmodern Social Theory -- 3. Michel Foucault: Part 1: Archaeology of Knowledge; Genealogy of Power -- 4. Michel Foucault: Part 2: Sexuality, Power, and Self -- 5. Jean Baudrillard: Part 1: The Basic Theoretical Ideas -- 6. Jean Baudrillard: Part 2: Problems in the Contemporary World and the Possibility of Dealing With Them -- 7. Other French Postmodern Thinkers: Derrida, Deleuze and Guattari, Lyotard, Lacan, Virilio -- 8. Other European Perspectives: Giddens, Beck, Habermas, Bauman, and Harvey -- 9. American Interventions: Bell, Jameson, Feminists, and Multiculturalists -- 10. Postmodern Social Theory and Contemporary Sociological Theory -- 11. Postmodern Social Theory: An Application -- 12. Criticisms of, and the Move Beyond, Postmodernism.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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Ritzer's long-awaited text in Postmodern Social Theory is a readable & coherent introduction to the fundamental ideas & most important thinkers in postmodern social theory.