Postmodern American Sociology: A Response to the Aesthetic Challenge
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Postmodern American Sociology: A Response to the Aesthetic Challenge
By (Author) Jongryul Choi
University Press of America
University Press of America
13th April 2004
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
301.0973
Physical Properties
Paperback
254
Width 162mm, Height 215mm, Spine 20mm
327g
Description
Postmodern American Sociology views the modern, the postmodern, and the relationship between the two in terms of the three paradigms of knowledge: science, morality and aesthetics. According to author Jongryul Choi, postmodernism maintains that ontology, epistemology and ethics/politics in the postmodern era have been aestheticized.
Reviews
Choi suggests modernism emerged during the Enlightenment when science was elevated to the highest form of knowledge and became the appropriate determinant of how people should live. Sociology developed under the authority of sciece; sociologists' recommendations were beyond dispute because they were based on facts, not values. Summing Up: RECOMMENDED. Graduate students/faculty. -- Y. R. Magrass, University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth * Choice Reviews *
Author Bio
Jongryul Choi is Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Development Studies at Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Choi holds a Ph.D. in Philosophy, Sociology from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
