Title: Everything in its Proper Place? Modernism and Postmodernism
Abstract: Major strands of social theory have arisen out of, and in relation to, their historical and social context. Ideas and formulations may be seen to be of their time and not some form of neutral and disconnected process of ‘knowledge’ production. In this chapter, I will discuss how the split and separate traditions of positivism and humanism may relate to the emergence of modernity as a social formation. This leads in to a consideration of how modernism has been contested — from both the perspective of postmodernism and that of critical theory — and an evaluation of the ways in which both modernism and postmodernism have influenced human services practice.
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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