From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society

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.

Krishan Kumar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Since publishing the first edition of From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society, he has co-edited Public and Private in Thought and Practice (1987) and written 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001) and The Making of English National Identity (2003).

Preface to the Second Edition	vi
Preface to the First Edition	ix
1 Rethinking Modernity	3	(26)
2 The Revival of Post-Industrial Theory	29	(4)
3 The Information Society	33	(28)
4 Fordism and Post-Fordism	61	(29)
5 Modernity and Post-Modernity (I): The Idea of the Modern	90	(33)
6 Modernity and Post-Modernity (II): The Idea of Post-Modernity	123	(46)
7 Millennial Themes: Endings and Beginnings	169	(50)
Notes	219	(26)
References	245	(31)
Index	276

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

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