{"product_id":"postmodern-american-sociology-a-response-to-the-aesthetic-challenge-9780761828143","title":"Postmodern American Sociology A Response to the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePostmodern 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChoi 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Modern as the Scientization and Moralization of Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics\/Politics Chapter 3 The Postmodern as the Aestheticization of Ontology, Epistemology, and Ethics\/Politics Chapter 4 Vulnerability of Sociology to the Aesthetic Challenge Chapter 5 The Emergence of Postmodern American Sociology as a Response to the Aesthetic Challenge Chapter 6 Conclusion: Further Implications of Postmodern American Sociology Chapter 7 Bibliography Chapter 8 Index","brand":"University Press of America","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51037780803927,"sku":"9780761828143","price":46.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postmodern-american-sociology-a-response-to-the-aesthetic-challenge-9780761828143","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}