Sociology after Postmodernism

David Owen is lecturer in politics at the University of Southampton. His previous publications include Maturity and Modernity (1994) and Nietzsche, Politics and Modernity (1995). CONTRIBUTORS OUTSIDE WESTERN HEMISPHERE Samanta Ashenden Birkbeck College University of London Paul Connolly University of Ulster Mitchell Dean Macquarrie University Peter Jowers University of the West of England Thomas Osborne University of Bristol Ralph Schroeder Royal Holloway College University of London Nigel South University of Essex Sean Watson University of the West of England Malcolm Waters University of Tasmania

INTRODUCTION The Postmodern Challenge to Sociology - David Owen CLASS Inequality after Class - Malcolm Waters GENDER Feminism, Postmodernism and the Sociology of Gender - Samantha Ashenden RACE AND ETHNICITY Racism and Postmodernism: Towards a Theory of Practice - Paul Connolly CRIMINOLOGY AND DEVIANCE Late-Modern Criminology - Nigel South `Late' as in `Dead' or `Modern' as in `New' LAW Law, Politics and the Social Sciences - Alan Hunt SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY The Sociology of Science and Technology after Relativism - Ralph Schroeder CULTURE AND MEDIA Social Theory and Cultural Studies - Douglas Kellner SEXUALITY Sex after `Sexuality' - Arlene Stein From Sexology to Post-Structuralism AFFECTIVITY Somatology - Sean Watson and Peter Jowers Sociology and the Visceral MEDICINE AND THE BODY Body Amnesia - Comments on Corporeality - Thomas Osborne HISTORY AND POLITICS Sociology after Society - Mitchell Dean

`For those of us who take the thesis of postmodernity seriously yet retain the empirical and theoretical apparatus of sociology, this book will be a very welcome addition to our libraries' - Contemporary Sociology