Alienation, Ethnicity, and Postmodernism

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Edited by Felix Geyer

ISBN: 0-313-29888-2

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-29888-2

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256 pages, figures, tables

Greenwood Press

Publication: 11/30/1996

List Price: $115.00 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Sociology

Series Number: 116

Description: The essays in this volume offer the reader a broad, interdisciplinary perspective on the ways in which theories of alienation are influencing current debates in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, and social philosophy. In his introductory essay, Felix Geyer discusses how classical notions of alienation have been put to use to describe the dysfunctions within societies that are becoming sharply divided along racial lines and according to the disparities in power described by postmodernism. The essays that follow Geyer's introduction then take up the problems of alienation, ethnicity, and postmodernism in the contexts of increasing economic globalization and renewed racial hostility in communities both in the United States and abroad.

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: Alienation, Ethnicity, and Postmodernism: From Here to Postmodernity by Felix Geyer
Alienation Redux by Richard Schacht
The Strange Career of Alienation: How a Concept Is Transformed without Permission of Its Founders by Irving Louis Horowitz
The Fetishization of Alienation: Unpacking a Problem of Science, Knowledge, and Reified Practices in the Workplace by David Schweitzer
"But What Can 'One' Do?:" Agency and Alienation in Economic Crises by Peter Archibald
Building Democracy in the New South Africa: Civil Society, Citizenship, and Political Ideology by Mark Orkin
Immigration, Alienation, and Political Change: A Positive Case from Los Angeles by John Horton
Ethnic Revival and Conflicts: The Challenge of the 1990s by Yehuda Bien
Tracing the Growth of Alienation: Enculturation, Socialization, and Schooling in a Democracy by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Alienation and Racial Discrimination in the European Union by Marie Macey
Postmodern Culture and the Revisioning of Alienation by Kenneth J. Gergen
The Self Strikes Back: Identity Politics in the Postmodern Age by Lauren Langman and Valerie Scatamburla
Alienation, Everyday Life, and Postmodernism as Critical Theory by Mark Gottdiener
Post-ism or Positivism? A Comparison Between Theories of Reification and Theories of Postmodernity by Frédéric Vandenberghe
Alienation, New Age Sociology and the Jewish Way by Philip Wexler
Cross the Border, Confront Boundaries: Problems of Habituality, Marginality, and Liminality by Pirkkoliisa Ahponen
Individual, Time, and Death in Contemporary Society by Maria Helena Oliva Augusto
Bibliography
Author Index
Subject Index

LC Card Number: 95-50515

LCC Class: HM291

Dewey Class: 302


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