Simon Susen (2017) ‘Following the Footprints of the ‘Postmodern Turn’: A Reply to Gregor Mclennan’, European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 4(1), Pp. 104-123.
European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 4(1), 100–104, 2017
Posted: 21 Feb 2017 Last revised: 27 Feb 2017
Date Written: February 10, 2017
Abstract
This paper provides a detailed response to the following review article: McLennan, Gregor (2017). "Review article: The 'postmodern turn' in the social sciences, by Simon Susen, Houndmills, Palgrave Macmillan, 2015". European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology, 4(1), 100–104. – In this Reply, the following issues are given particular attention: (1) common ground; (2) purpose; (3) distance; (4) failure; (4.1) readership; (4.2) familiarity; (4.3) systematicity; (4.4) originality; (4.5) justification; (4.6) (post-) positivism; (4.7) the "cultural turn"; (4.8) history; (4.9) determinacy/indeterminacy; (4.10) "modern" vs. "postmodern".
Keywords: McLennan, postmodern turn, postmodernism, social sciences
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