The second edition of this classic study, revised with a new and substantial opening chapter.

• New edition of a classic study by a leading social theorist
  
• Explores three major ideas crucial to contemporary social theory: the information society, post-Fordism, and post-modernism
  
• Places the three key ideas within the context of contemporary discourse on globalization.

About the Author
Krishan Kumar is Professor of Sociology at the University of Virginia. Since publishing the first edition of From Post-Industrial to Post-Modern Society, he has co-edited Public and Private in Thought and Practice (1987) and written 1989: Revolutionary Ideas and Ideals (2001) and The Making of English National Identity (2003).

Reviews
"This superb book, which has been essential reading since its original publication, now includes a major new introductory chapter, covering theories of globalization and multiple modernity's. Kumar manages to to be judicious and provocative, comprehensive and clear, and magisterial and readable. The book is an indispensable guide to these highly contested yet inescapable attempts to theorize modern societies." William Outhwaite, University of Sussex

"From Post-Industrial to Post Modern Society has established itself as an incomparable classic of modern sociology. The second edition extends the range of the original text to address new problems of globalism, and thereby integrates the globalization debate into concerns about post-modernity. A singular achievement." Bryan Turner, Cambrige University.

Book Information
ISBN 9781405114295
Author Krishan Kumar
Format Paperback
Page Count 304
Imprint Wiley-Blackwell
Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Weight(grams) 445g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm