Culture/power/history: A Reader in Contemporary Social TheoryNicholas B. Dirks, Geoff Eley, Sherry B. Ortner Princeton University Press, 1994 - 621 pages 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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... constituted precisely within the relations between official and unofficial agents of social control and cultural production . At the same time , there is a major recognition of the degree to which power itself is a cultural construct ...
... constituted , contested , and 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 ...
... constituted by the civic instruction involved in assembling large crowds for peaceful and uplifting purposes . The rowdiness of the public fair and carnival gave way to the moral and cultural regulation of the museum . It is interesting ...
... constituted subjects become agents in the active sense — how their actions and modes of being in the world always sustain and sometimes transform the very structures that made them . Constituting the Subject We must begin by confronting ...
... constituting and limiting , providing people with a narrow sense of possibility , keeping them in their places . Through his concept of " habitus , " Pierre Bourdieu develops this point extensively , arguing that the parameters of ...
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