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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... organizations in the narrower sense ) onto a variety of settings pre- viously regarded as " nonpolitical , " including the workplace , the street , the deviant or criminal subculture , the recreational domain , and , above all , the ...
... organization , particular kinds of knowing and under- standing , particular modes of 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 ...
... organization of space ( in houses , in villages and cities ) and time ( the rhythms of work , lei- sure , holidays ) embody the assumptions of gender , age , and social hierarchy upon which a particular way of life is built . As the ...
... organized in terms of surfaces , and of the interplay between surfaces ( for example , in the contem- porary emphasis on pastiche ) , it will tend to constitute subjects who are as " depthless " as postmodern society . In Jameson's ...
... organization , consciousness , and culture . At the same time , we cannot conduct the alternative analysis simply as a process of empirical disaggrega- tion , so that a fuller grasp of the working class's compositional complexities ...
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