the development of postmodern perspective has been considered as one of the most challenging approaches over a few last decades. many scholars maintain that postmodernism could be defined as fourth paradigms of social sciences after positivist, interpretive and critical social science. the emergence and development of this novel approach has great influences on the basics and essentials of many...

modernity has been interpreted from different angles. scholars such as derida and lyotard talk about the end of modernity and the beginning of a new era called post-modernism, though thinkers like habermas do not believe in that.habermas who do not believe in the end of modernity and the beginning of post-modernism, finds modernism as the only way to human liberty who has chosen a wrong path an...

Out society is changing. This statement does not necessarily follow from the observation of a particular society, but can also be derived from the attention sociologists (and others) pay to the theme of a changing society. There are numerous examples of sociological analyses of the 'new' society, like the post-modern society (Bell, Lyotard), the risk society (Beck), the global society (Giddens,...