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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... effect , our personal " top tens " ) , and then discussed intensively the range of purposes that different se- lections could be expected to perform . We began with some working notion of what bases needed to be touched , and added ...
... effect the key symbol of the field , the concept has come under challenge precisely because of new understandings regarding power and his- tory . Thus , for example , one of the core dimensions of the concept of culture has been the ...
... effects . Although Foucault is typically labeled a poststructuralist ( a term that usu- ally conceals more than it ... effect of that structure itself . Social systems are both imposed by force from above — they embody relations of ...
... effect ; [ of things ] efficient cause ; a natural force acting on matter ... ; one who does the actual work . " The active implications of " subject " are less prominent , but are thrown into relief when the term is contrasted with ...
... effect is one of near - total naturalization of the social order , the forging of homologies between personal identity and social classification . Bourdieu's discussion of the inculcation of doxa , of the sense that the lim- its of ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |