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Postmodernity USA
The Crisis of Social Modernism in Postwar America
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American Government and Politics | Industrial Sociology | Modernity & Postmodernity
American Government and Politics | Industrial Sociology | Modernity & Postmodernity
March 1993 | 192 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
In this rigorous and challenging analysis of American postmodernity, Anthony Woodiwiss re-examines the political, economic and social life of the United States over the past 60 years.
Exploring the rise and fall of modernism as a social ideology, he offers a distinctive and original interpretation of the unique experience of American modernity and the arrival of the postmodern world. The result is both a novel history of postwar America and a significant contribution to the idea of postmodernism as a social and cultural form. Postmodernity USA also carries lessons for the understanding of class, culture and politics in late industrial societies in general.
Introduction
PART ONE: FINDING SOCIAL MODERNISM
New Deal Figurations
The Society that Would be Modern
A Modernizing Discourse
Social Modernism and Class Relations
PART TWO: FORGETTING SOCIAL MODERNISM
The Return of the Referents
The Vietnam War, Protest and Class Relations
The Discourse of Forgetfulness
Social (Post)modernism and Class Relations
Conclusion
