Vytauto Kavolio ciklinė postmodernizmo samprata
Vytautas Kavolis’ Cyclical Concept of Postmodernism

Summary/Abstract: This paper discusses a concept of postmodernism developed by the American Lithuanian sociologist Vytautas Kavolis. It explores the concept’s theoretical origins, assumptions, and places it in the context of the wider debates on postmodernism. Kavolis formulated the concept of postmodernism in the context of his theory of modernization. In this article I claim that Kavolis developed the theory of modernization, and at the same time the concept of postmodernism, as a critical response to the modernization theory of the American sociologist Alex Inkeles. In regard to Kavolis’ place in the debates on postmodernism that took part in Western science in the second half of the 20th century, it is argued that his most original contribution is the cyclical concept of postmodernism. The paper also discusses how the sociologist locates postmodernism in the process of modernization.

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