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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... cultural specificity , and the changeability of things ; to the constructed- ness of the world and its categories ... cultural stud- ies , generously extended toward a range of further influences from social his- tory , social theory ...
... Cultural Feminism versus Post - Structuralism : The Identity Crisis in Feminist Theory . " Reprinted from Signs ... Cultural Critique , no . 7 ( Fall 1987 ) : 19-46 . Copy- right 1987 Cultural Critique , Oxford University Press . Used ...
... cultural worlds of different classes , ethnic groups , racial groups , and so on and the ways in which these cultural worlds interact . Another core aspect of the concept of culture has been the notion of cul- ture's extraordinary ...
... cultural production . At the same time , there is a major recognition of the degree to which power itself is a cultural construct . The modes of expression of physi- cal force and violence are culturally shaped , while force and ...
... cultural , and culture , inherently historical . We have already indicated the ways in which the concept of culture is being historicized . The recognition of the " invented " nature of many tradi- tions , the recognition of cultural ...
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