Question on Charles lemert?

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Question on Charles lemert?

what is the golden moment for lemert, and how is relate to Walt Rostow's work on modernalization theory ?

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Charles Lemert is professor of sociology at Wesleyan College in the U.S.A. He is the author of a number of books on social theory and is the editor of that excellent collection: 'Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic Readings' (1999). He is a social theorist who has done much to bring the ideas of postmodernism to the field of sociology. The text of Lemert's that I've referenced on the timeline, Sociology: After the Crisis, is one which sees Lemert, 'settling accounts', as it were, with the work of Emile Durkheim. Durkheim's work can be seen as the template for a particular (functionalist and) modernist understanding of sociology. Lemert's 'settling of accounts' acts as precursor for his own attempt to suggest what a postmodern sociology might entail. Lemert suggests that sociology (or what he would rather term 'social theory' ) is about 'story-telling'. By 'story', Lemert does not wish to imply 'fiction' or 'falsehood'. Rather, in keeping with postmodernist ideas, Lemert is suggesting that sociology/social theory must reject attempts at 'grand theory' (such as was attempted by Durkheim or Marx), instead sociology must 'listen' to the diverse and contradictory 'local' voices of distinct communities.