Includes bibliographical references and index.

Acknowledgements -- Introduction: postmodernism in global perspective / by Samir Dasgupta and Peter -- Kivisto -- Framing postmodernism in global terms -- Dialectics of globalization : from theory to practice / Douglas Kellner -- After developmentalism and globalization, what? / Immanuel Wallerstein -- 21st century globalization : sociological perspectives / Jan Nederveen Pieterse -- Explicating postmodernism -- The emergence of postmodern theory in sociology / Andy Scerri -- Postmodernity as an internal critique of modernity / Peter Kivisto -- Modernity and postmodernity / Nico Stehr and Jason L. Mast -- Sociology and postmodern risk / Samir Dasgupta -- Postmodernism and sociology : can solidarity be a substitute for objectivity? / Murray Milner, Jr -- Many faces of postmodernism : gender, market religions, management -- Philosophy, and culture -- Feminism, postmodern contentions, and emancipatory politics / Rosalind A. Sydie -- Julia kristeva : toward a postmodern philosophy of feminism / Mahbuba Nasreen -- "Market religions" and postmodern globalization theory / Gabriel Ignatow and Lindsey A. Johnson -- Critical management studies (cmc) and post-modernist movements / Ananda Das Gupta -- Globalization, postmodernism, and literary criticism / Imre Szeman -- About the editors and contributors -- Index.