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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... Symbolic Power Pierre Bourdieu 155 CHAPTER FIVE Two Lectures Michel Foucault CHAPTER SIX After the Masses Dick Hebdige CHAPTER SEVEN Family , Education , Photography Judith Williamson 200 222 236 PART TWO : CULTURE / POWER / HISTORY 245 ...
... Symbolic Power . " Reprinted from Bourdieu , Outline of a Theory of Practice ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1977 ) , 159-97 , with the permission of Cambridge University Press . Nicholas B. Dirks , " Ritual and Resistance ...
... symbolic " bits of life — rituals , festivals , folklore or alternatively simply doing " the ethnography of the past . " On neither side was there a really serious assault on the question of whether history itself was inherently ...
... symbolic / discursive productions as myths and rituals . Where Durkheim had argued that " mental " and symbolic representations reflected social structure , Levi - Strauss turned Durkheim on his head . Bourdieu , in turn , was ...
... symbolic analysis , the original textual turn was taken by Clifford Geertz , on the basis of a very different ensemble of theoret- ical influences , including Kenneth Burke , Northrup Frye , and Paul Ricoeur . Geertz wrote , in his well ...
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