Postmodern Social TheoryThis text offers an historical sketch of the development of postmodern social theory, major criticisms of it, and recent efforts to move beyond it. It focuses on the work of such leading postmodernists as Michael Foucault, Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Jean-Francois Lyotard, and on contemporary alternatives/reactions/interventions by such theorists as Anthony Giddens and Ulrich Beck. American contributions by Daniel Bell and Frederic Jameson and the relationship between feminist and multiculturalist theory from a sociological perspective receives treatment. Ritzer discusses the implications postmodern social theory has for contemporary sociological theory and shows how it can be used to analyze contemporary consumer society. |
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... Lacan , of course , was building upon Freudian theory and integrat- ing it with other ideas , most notably from our point of view , Saussurian linguistics . Thus , Lacan is noted for statements such as " the unconscious is structured ...
... Lacan , of course , was building upon Freudian theory and integrat- ing it with other ideas , most notably from our point of view , Saussurian linguistics . Thus , Lacan is noted for statements such as " the unconscious is structured ...
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... LACAN : THE IMAGINARY , THE SYMBOLIC , THE REAL5 Although Lacan ( 1966/1977 ) considered himself to be a structural psychoanalyst , in many ways his ideas initiated the end of structuralism and , in the view of some , began ...
... LACAN : THE IMAGINARY , THE SYMBOLIC , THE REAL5 Although Lacan ( 1966/1977 ) considered himself to be a structural psychoanalyst , in many ways his ideas initiated the end of structuralism and , in the view of some , began ...
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... Lacan adopts each of these roles in turn , and seldom pauses to announce or explain his switches of position . And occasionally a new master appears : Freud may become the mere harbinger of the Lacanian word , or the originator of a ...
... Lacan adopts each of these roles in turn , and seldom pauses to announce or explain his switches of position . And occasionally a new master appears : Freud may become the mere harbinger of the Lacanian word , or the originator of a ...
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POSTMODERN SOCIAL THEORY SOCIOLOGY | 1 |
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STRUCTURALISM AND POSTSTRUCTURALISM | 26 |
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