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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... hegemony ( on the latter point , the works of Raymond Williams have been particularly influential ) . Both concepts em- phasize the degree to which culture is grounded in unequal relations and is differentially related to people and ...
... hegemony of social theories in which the analytic emphasis was on the ordering of the forms — institutional , ideational , psychological — within which social actors are situated ( the image of enclosure and the passive voice here are ...
... hegemony , shapes identities and , in his famous phrase " structures of feeling , " so as to produce the naturalization of the arbitrary to which Bourdieu attends so centrally . But Williams is more directly concerned than Bourdieu with ...
... hegemonic formations , whether these are constituted within academic disciplines , particular institutional fields , or at the level of whole societies . But Gates formulates this constructive aspiration of resistance — its ...
... hegemonic spread of Western capitalism . Sahlins projects his insights about the cultural character of resistance onto the largest ... hegemony and power , at the same time that it provides the conceptual grounds for INTRODUCTION . 21.
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