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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... transformations , much can be learned by attending to " everyday forms of resistance " as well ( see Scott 1985 , 1990 ; Ludtke 1993 ) . But this , in turn , opens the question of the relationship between popular culture in which people ...
... transformed . But here the point links up with issues of power . For the point is not simply that some generic form of historian is getting interested in culture , and some generic form of anthropologist is getting interested in history ...
... transform the very structures that made them . Constituting the Subject We must begin by confronting the ambiguity in almost all the available terms for the actor , that is , we must confront the fact that all these terms have both an ...
... transform human beings into sub- jects " ( 1982 , 208 ) . He goes on to say that he is interested in exploring not so much institutions of power , but forms of power , and specifically that form of power that " categorizes the ...
... transformations . Ortner traces the oscillations in anthropological theory between " objectivist " and ... transformed , misrecognizable form [ s ] of the real divisions of the social order . " From this vantage point , Bourdieu had two ...
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