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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... gender or , in a different sense , on film and other popular media — lies across and beyond the established boundaries of disciplinary discussion . We see ourselves as contributing to an emerging politics of knowledge in this respect ...
... Genders , no . 7 ( 1990 ) : 1-21 , by permission of the author and the University of Texas Press . Sherry B. Ortner , " Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties . " Reprinted from Com- parative Studies in Society and History 26 , no . 1 ...
... gender , ethnicity and race , roughness and respectability , are becoming central to the contemporary problematic . Finally , the move in social history away from state politics , and toward a focus on the " small people , " has often ...
... 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 constituted subjects become agents in the active sense — how their actions and modes ...
... gender , age , and social hierarchy upon which a particular way of life is built . As the actor grows up , and lives everyday life within these spatial and temporal forms , s / he comes to embody those assumptions , literally and ...
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Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social Theory Nicholas B. Dirks,Geoff Eley No preview available - 1994 |