From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society

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The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new andsubstantial opening chapter. * New edition of a classic study by a leading socialtheorist * Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary socialtheory: the information society, post-Fordism, andpost-modernism * Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporarydiscourse on globalization.

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Krishan Kumar

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"This superb book, which has been essential reading since itsoriginal publication, now includes a major new introductorychapter, covering theories of globalization and multiplemodernity's. Kumar manages to to be judicious andprovocative, comprehensive and clear, and magisterial and readable.The book is an indispensable guide to these highly contested yetinescapable attempts to theorize modern societies."William Outhwaite, University of Sussex "From Post-Industrial to Post Modern Society hasestablished itself as an incomparable classic of modern sociology.The second edition extends the range of the original text toaddress new problems of globalism, and thereby integrates theglobalization debate into concerns about post-modernity. A singularachievement." Bryan Turner, Cambrige University.
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