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082			_a306 LYO 2nd ed.
100			_aLyon,David
245		0	_aPostmodernity: concepts in social thought
260			_aNew Delhi
260			_bViva books
260			_c2002
300			_a131p.
365			_b 135.00
365			_dRS
520			_aIn the second edition of this highly successful text, postmodernity is seen as the social condition of the twenty first century, in which some of the most familiar features of the modern world are not only called into question, but actually undermined by novel trends. The key carriers of the postmodern-new technologies and consumerism emerged in thoroughly modern contexts, but so profoundly affect everyday social life that modernity itself is changing shape. Postmodernity is a way of describing a new society-in-the making without supposing that modernity has been entirely left behind. While some dub these changes as "high" or "late" modern, this book argues that "postmodernity" best captures today's transformations or modernity. Postmodernity is explored as a theoretical concept in order to uncover and illuminate central social trends of the present. Its historical roots and cultural dimensions are examined, as are the ideas of its leading theorists. In this updated and expanded edition, greater attention is paid to processes of globalization as well as to the postmodern view of cyberspace, cyborgs, and the body as a site of moral conflict.
650			_aSocial classes
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