Includes bibliographical references and index.

Self-identity and personhood in social analysis : the inadequacies of postmodernism and social constructionism / Derek Layder -- Cognitive relativism : between positivistic and relativistic thinking in the social sciences / Nicos Mouzelis -- An excursus in post-postmodern social science / Roger Sibeon -- Postmodern social theory and sociology : on symbolic exchange with a "dead" theory / George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan -- The postmodern terrorist risk : plus �ca change, plus c'est la m�eme chose / Gabe Mythen -- The perils of uncertainty : reflections on theoretical practice and graduate education / Peter Leonard and Amanda Grenier -- Masculinity as a reproduction of traditionalism, feminist reaction, and egalitarianism / Andreas Schneider -- Film, postmodernism and the sociological imagination : exploring the power of local stories in southern Korea and northern England / Sung Kyung Kim and Rob Stones -- Temporality and old age : a postmodern critique / Steven L. Arxer, John W. Murphy and Linda Liska Belgrave -- Understanding aging bodies : a postmodern dialogue on bio-medicine, body and cultural representations of identity / Jason L. Powell and Azrini Wahidin -- After postmodernism : towards an evolutionary sociology / Tim Owen -- (Dis)interring postmodernism or a critique on the political economy of consumer choice / Barry Smart.

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