Culture/Power/History: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoffrey H. Eley, Sherry B. Ortner The intellectual radicalism of the 1960s spawned a new set of questions about the role and nature of "the political" in social life, questions that have since revolutionized nearly every field of thought, from literary criticism through anthropology to the philosophy of science. Michel Foucault in particular made us aware that whatever our functionally defined "roles" in society, we are constantly negotiating questions of authority and the control of the definitions of reality. Such insights have led theorists to challenge concepts that have long formed the very underpinnings of their disciplines. By exploring some of the most debated of these concepts--"culture," "power," and "history"--this reader offers an enriching perspective on social theory in the contemporary moment. |
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... organization , particular kinds of knowing and understanding , particular modes of gender and sexual ordering , and so forth . At the same time we seek to highlight efforts to understand the ways in which culturally and historically ...
... organization of space ( in houses , in villages and cities ) and time ( the rhythms of work , leisure , holidays ) embody the assumptions of gender , age , and social hierarchy upon which a particular way of life is built . As the actor ...
... organization , consciousness , and culture . At the same time , we cannot conduct the alternative analysis simply as a process of empirical disaggregation , so that a fuller grasp of the working class's compositional complexities ( its ...
... organizations around that insistence ( for example , trade unions and socialist parties ) , is arguably a better starting point for the study of class formation than the classic one of economics and social structure , because it was at ...
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Contents
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CHAPTER | 96 |
CHAPTER THREE | 123 |
CHAPTER FOUR | 155 |
CHAPTER FIVE | 200 |
CHAPTER | 222 |
CHAPTER SEVEN | 236 |
CHAPTER TWELVE | 372 |
CHAPTER THIRTEEN | 412 |
CHAPTER FOURTEEN | 459 |
CHAPTER FIFTEEN | 483 |
CHAPTER SIXTEEN | 504 |
Stuart Hall | 520 |
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN | 539 |
CHAPTER NINETEEN | 557 |
CHAPTER EIGHT | 247 |
CHAPTER NINE | 269 |
CHAPTER | 297 |
CHAPTER ELEVEN | 336 |
CHAPTER TWENTY | 585 |
NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS | 609 |
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |