Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff 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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... Complex Tony Bennett 123 CHAPTER FOUR Structures , Habitus , Power : Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power Pierre Bourdieu 155 CHAPTER FIVE Two Lectures Michel Foucault CHAPTER SIX After the Masses Dick Hebdige CHAPTER SEVEN Family ...
... complex and subtle interconnectedness of matters that intellec- tual and political conservatives would sooner keep apart ; to historical contin- gency , cultural specificity , and the changeability of things ; to the constructed- ness ...
... Complex . " Reprinted from New Formations 4 ( 1988 ) : 73-102 , by permission of the author . Pierre Bourdieu , " Structures , Habitus , Power : Basis for a Theory of Symbolic Power . " Reprinted from Bourdieu , Outline of a Theory of ...
... complex societies , in which divisions of class , race , and ethnicity are fundamentally constitutive , it has become clear that if we speak of culture as shared , we must now always ask " By whom ? " and " In what ways ? " and " Under ...
... complex and problematic relations between social movements and disorderly popular culture , involving distinc- tions of class and gender , ethnicity and race , roughness and respectability , are becoming central to the contemporary ...
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