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From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society. New Theories of the Contemporary World

In the second edition of this classic study, Krishan Kumar introduces and assesses the rival claims of three theories crucial to an understanding of contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism. Explaining how these theories developed and why they have held such an appeal, the author provides the most readable and evenly-balanced account of three very different, but overlapping paradigms. In a new and substantial introduction, Kumar places the three key approaches within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization. From Post Industrial to Pos.

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  • "In the second edition of this classic study, Krishan Kumar introduces and assesses the rival claims of three theories crucial to an understanding of contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism. Explaining how these theories developed and why they have held such an appeal, the author provides the most readable and evenly-balanced account of three very different, but overlapping paradigms. In a new and substantial introduction, Kumar places the three key approaches within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization. From Post Industrial to Pos."@en
  • "The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter.New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization."

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  • "Da Sociedade pós-industrial à pós-moderna : novas teorias sobre o mundo contemporâneo"@pt
  • "From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society. New Theories of the Contemporary World"@en
  • "From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society New Theories of the Contemporary World"
  • "From post-industrial to post-modern society"
  • "From post-industrial to post-modern society"@en
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  • "From post-industrial to post-modern society new theories of the contemporary world"@en
  • "From post-industrial to post-modern society new theories of the contemporary world"
  • "From post-industrial to post-modern society : new theories of the contemporary world"@en
  • "From post-industrial to post-modern society : new theories of the contemporary world"
  • "Le nuove teorie del mondo contemporaneo : dalla società post-industriale alla società post-moderna"@it
  • "Le nuove teorie del mondo contemporaneo : dalla società post-industriale alla società post-moderna"
  • "Da sociedade pós-industrial à pós moderna novas teorias sobre o mundo contemporâneo"@pt

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