Postmodernity Second Edition David Lyon		$18.50 paper ISBN: 0-8166-3227-8 ISBN-13: 978-0-8166-3227-5
Postmodernity as idea, critique, cultural experience, and social condition has engendered a sometimes angry, sometimes anxious debate across many disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. In Postmodernity, David Lyon provides a stimulating introduction to this contested concept and the discussions it provokes. Lyon describes this multilayered notion that encompasses a variety of major social and cultural changes taking place at the end of the twentieth century. Among the key processes he examines: rapid technological change shifting political concerns the rise of social movements globalization Lyon discusses modernity as a social-cultural entity and questions whether it and the monolithic edifice of Enlightenment rationality and progress are disintegrating. He concludes that a new sort of society is emerging, one structured around consumers and consumption rather than workers and production. This second edition delves more deeply into issues such as globalization and the new postmodern quest for ethics. David Lyon teaches in the Department of Sociology, Queen's University, Ontario and is the author of The Electronic Eye. 160 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 1/2 | 1999 Concepts in Social Thought Series