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Postmodernism as Social Theory: Some Challenges and Problems:
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This article is published in Theory, Culture & Society.The article was published on 1988-06-01. It has received 136 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social change & Social network.read more
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On the Idea of Emancipation in Management and Organization Studies
Mats Alvesson,Hugh Willmott +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the meaning of emancipation in management and organization studies is reconceptualized and an approach that takes into account recent criticism of its “totalizing” tendencies raised by post structuralists is developed.
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Critical Theory, Poststructuralism, Postmodernism: Their Sociological Relevance
TL;DR: In this article, the main theoretical contributions of critical theory, poststructuralism and postmodernism to sociological research have been examined, and the implications of these three theoretical perspectives for the ways sociologists think about the boundaries and territoriality of their discipline are discussed.
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Modernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis 4: The Contribution of Jürgen Habermas
TL;DR: The work of Jurgen Habermas has been analyzed in this paper for defending organization theory from the charge that our discipline offers no means of preventing our involvement in the next Holocaust.
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The end of sociological theory: The postmodern hope
TL;DR: Sociological theory has lost most of its social and intellectual importance; it is disengaged from the conflicts and public debates that have nourished it in the past; it has turned inward and is largely self-referential as discussed by the authors.
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Grounded theory in nursing research: Part 2--Critique.
Terence V. McCann,Eileen Clark +1 more
TL;DR: The methodology of grounded theory is critiqued and the main differences between Glaser's approach and Strauss and Corbin's approach to grounded theory are summarised.
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The Theory of Communicative Action
Jürgen Habermas,Thomas McCarthy +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, an apex seal for a rotary combustion engine is disclosed having a hollow, thin wall, tubular, metal core member embedded in an extruded composite metal-carbon matrix, adapted to slideably engage the slot of the rotor in which it rides and sealingly engage the rotor housing against which it is spring and gas pressure biased.
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The Archaeology of Knowledge
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors define the Statement and the Archive and define the Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Contradictions 5. Change and Transformations 6. The Formation of Concepts 7. Conclusion Conclusion Index
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The Archaeology of Knowledge.
TL;DR: In this article, the authors define the Statement and the Archive and define the Enunciative Function 3. The Description of Staements 4. Contradictions 5. Change and Transformations 6. The Formation of Concepts 7. Conclusion Conclusion Index
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Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
TL;DR: The authors argued that the questions about truth posed by Descartes, Kant, Hegel, and modern epistemologists and philosophers of language simply cannot be answered and were, in any case, irrelevant to serious social and cultural inquiry.