Periodization and politics in the postmodern / Bryan S. Turner -- Modernity, postmodernity and the present / Barry Smart -- Reading "Wall street": postmodern contradictions in the American social structure / Norman K. Denzin- After nostalgia? : wilful nostalgia and the phases of globalization / Roland Robertson -- Postmodernism as humanism? : urban space and social theory /Scott Lash -- Simmel and the theory of postmodern society / Deena Weinstein and Michael A. Weinstein -- Habermas and the completion of "the project of modernity" / David Ashley -- Lyotard and Weber : postmodern rules and neo- Kantian values / Charles Turner -- Towards a reinterpretation of modernity in an age of postmodernity / Adam B. Seligman -- Women between fundamentalism and modernity / Ayşegül Baykan -- Women between modernity and postmodernity / Lieteke van Vucht Tijssen -- Citizenship in the semiotic society / Philip Wexler