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Ron Alcalay, "Morphing Out of Identity Politics: Black or White and Terminator 2 (1995) (Bad Subjects) |
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Alvin Gouldner (see under Marxism below) |
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Benedict Anderson |
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Synopsis of Imagined Communities (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Arthur Jafa Page (Black Cultural Studies Web) |
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Daniel Bell |
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The End of Ideology (Chap. 13 on "The Mood of Three Generations" and excerpt from the Conclusion) (Al Fireis, U. Penn) |
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Synopsis of The Coming of Post-Industrial Society: Chap. 6, ''Who Will Rule? Politicians and Technocrats in the Post-Industrial Society'' (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Pierre Bourdieu |
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Bourdieu List Archive (Spoons Collective) |
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The Bourdieu Forum (Marko Toivanen) |
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Synopsis of Distinction: Chap. 5, "The Sense of Distinction" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of Outline of a Theory of Practice: Chap. 2, "Structure and the Habitus" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of Toril Moi, "Appropriating Bourdieu's Feminist Theory and Pierre Bourdieu's Sociology of Culture" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Denis Byrne, "Traces of '65: Sites and Memories of the Post-Coup Killings in Bali" (1998) (essay that "reflects on the absence of physical traces of the 1965 killings and looks to the role of memory in commemoration") (Australian Humanities Review) |
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C.L.R. James (see under Marxism below) |
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Cornel West & His Critics (Brent Edwards) |
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Ralf Dahrendorf, Classes in Post-Capitalist Society (from Class and Class Conflict in Industrial Society) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Manthia Diawara |
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"Englishness and Blackness: Cricket as Discourse on Colonialism" (1990) (Black Cultural Studies Web / Callaloo) |
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Manthia Diawara Page (Black Cultural Studies Web) |
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Simon During (U. Melbourne), |
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Don Anderson (U. Sydney), "Teachers, Intellectuals, Politics" ("Surely one had a choice: merely to accept such interventionist restructuring of universities . . . or, on the other hand, to critique such New Statism"; extracted from longer piece published in 1995) |
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John Frow (U. Queensland), "Literature, Culture, Mirrors" (critique of both During's theses and Anderson's response; "The opposition set up here between cultural and literary studies is a phoney one. Cultural studies is a way of contextualizing texts, of any kind - of analysing the social relations of |
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Emile Durkheim |
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The Division of Labor in Society (excerpt) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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The Durkheim university Pages |
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Homepage (Robert Alun Jones, U. Illinois in Urbana-Champaign) (temporarily unavailable) |
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Selected Resources: |
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Bibliography of Works by Durkheim |
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Durkheim Timeline |
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Glossary of Terms and Concepts |
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Synopsis of On the Division of Labor in Society (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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What is a Social Fact? (from The Rules of the Sociological Method) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Edward W. Said (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine) |
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Norbert Elias |
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Robert van Krieken (U. Sydney), Norbert Elias: Key Sociologist (support site for van Krieken's book; will include drafts of chapters) |
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Norbert Elias and Process Sociology (Robert van Krieken, U. Sydney) |
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"Processes of State Formation and Nation Building" (Robert van Krieken, U. Sydney) |
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Friedrich Engels |
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"The Condition of England" (Review of Thomas Carlyle's Past and Present) (Marx/Engels Archive) |
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The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State (Marx/Engels Archive) |
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Outlines of a Critique of Political Economy (Marx/Engels Archive) |
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Synopsis of Capital, vol. 1 (Marx/Engels Archive) |
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Itamar Even-Zohar (Tel Aviv U.) |
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Culture Planning and the Market: Making and Maintaining Socio-Semiotic Entities" (1994) |
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"Factors and Dependencies in Culture" (1996) |
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"Language Conflict and National Identity" (1985) |
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"Polysystem Theory" (1997) ("The idea that socio-semiotic phenomena, i.e., sign-governed human patterns of communication [such as culture, language, literature], could more adequately be understood and studied if regarded as systems rather than conglomerates of disparate |
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"The Role of Literature in the Making of the Nations of Europe: A Socio-Semiotic Examination" (1993) |
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Andrew Feenberg (San Diego State U.), "Alternative Modernity? Playing the Japanese Game of Culture" (1994-95) (on Go gaming, rationality, culture, and non-Western modernities) |
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Michel Foucault |
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General Resources |
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Foucault Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy) |
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Foucault (biography, links to online texts, links to related Web pages, and papers) (Paul Ashton) |
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Foucault Page (A Genealogy of Foucault) (Ben Attias) |
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Foucault Page (Patrick Jennings) |
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Foucault Page (Chris Marvin & Frank Sikernitsky, Trinity C.) |
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Foucault List: Archives (U. Virginia) |
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Michel Foucault Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.) |
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Michel Foucault's Interpretive Analytics (interpretive explanation of Foucault's work from the Beginner's Guide to Research in the History of Science |
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The Untimely Past: Foucault Bibliography (extensive bibliography of primary and secondary works) (Jeffrey Hearn) |
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World of Michel Foucault Page |
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Other |
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Picture of Foucault (Philosopher's Gallery, U. Waterloo) |
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Secondary Literature |
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Michael L. Humphries, "Michel Foucault on Writing and the Self in the Meditations of Marcus Aurelius and Confessions of St. Augustine" (1996) (Arethusa) |
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Lois Shawver, "Notes on Reading Foucault's The Birth of the Clinic (1998) |
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Writings |
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Michel Foucault: "What is an Author?" (lecture notes created for a course) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder) |
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A Summary of Foucault's "The Discourse on Language" (John Lye, Brock U.) |
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Synopsis of Foucault's The History of Sexuality, Vol. I (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of Foucault's "Nietzsche, Geneology, History" (John Lye, Brock U.) |
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Clifford Geertz |
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Definitions of Culture (quotes and paraphrases of Geertz on the notion of "culture") |
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Synopsis of "Deep Play:'' Notes on a Balinese Cockfight" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of "Religion as a Cultural System" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Anthony Giddens |
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'Living in the world': Dilemmas of the Self (from Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Erving Goffman |
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The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life (Excerpts) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.): |
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Impression Management |
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Presentation of Self |
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Synopsis of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, pp. 1-76 (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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John Goldthorpe |
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Synopsis of Social Mobility and Class Structure in Modern Britain (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) " target="VoSLink"> |
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Jürgen Habermas |
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Habermas Resources (Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy) |
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Habermas List Archive (Spoon Collective) |
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Steve Stickle (Northern Illinois U.), "An Introduction to J. Habermas" |
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Theorems of Legitimation Crisis (from Legitimation Crisis) (Larry R. Ridener, Baylor U.) |
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Stuart Hall (Open U., Uk) |
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Cultural Studies: Stuart Hall (slide lecture) (Robert T. Craig & Karen Tracy) |
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Stuart Hall Page (Black Cultural Studies Web) |
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Donna Haraway and Cyborgs |
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Border Crossings: Cyborgs (Karla Tonella, U. Iowa) |
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Carolyn Keen on Haraway, "Cyborg Manifesto" (Jim English, U. Pennsylvania) |
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John R. R. Christie (U. Leeds), "A Tragedy for Cyborgs" (1993) (Configurations) |
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Communication Studies: Digital Media: Cyborgs (Karla Tonella, U. Iowa) |
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Donna Haraway, Avenali Professor for 2003-2004 (includes a link to the webcast of her Avenali lecture ) (U. California, Berkeley) |
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Donna Haraway Biblio (Elisa Kay Sparks, Clemson U.) |
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Donna Haraway Bibliography (Laura Sells, Center for Digital Discourse and Culture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State U.) |
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Donna Haraway - Professor of Feminist Theory and Technoscience - Biography (faculty page) (European Graduate School, Saas-Fee, Switzerland) |
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Donna Haraway - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
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Donna J. Haraway Resources at Erratic Impact's Feminism Web (Philosophy Research Base, Erratic Impact) |
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William Grassie (Temple U.), "Cyborgs, Trickster, and Hermes: Donna Haraway's Metatheory of Science and Religion" (1996) |
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Donna Haraway, "Chapter 9: Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective" (1991) (from Simians, Cyborgs, and Women: the Reinvention of Nature) (Reproductive Technologies Web: RT21, Harvard U.) |
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Donna Haraway, "A Cyborg Manifesto: Science, Technology, and Socialist-Feminism in the Late Twentieth Century" (1991) (Stanford U.) |
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Donna Haraway, "The Promises of Monsters: A Regenerative Politics for Inappropriate/d Others" (1992) (Stanford U.) |
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P. K. Jamison (Indiana U.), "Contradictory Spaces: Pleasure and the Seduction of the Cyborg Discourse" (1994) (Arachnet Electronic Journal on Virtual Culture) |
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Hari Kunzru, "You Are Cyborg" (1997) (Wired News) |
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Language Visualization and Multilayer Text Analysis ("prototype tool that can study language/discourse phenomena in three-dimensional space") (Cornell U.) |
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Notes on Donna Haraway (Krista Scott-Dixon) |
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Ode to Donna Haraway -- Voxygen (Laura Sells, Louisiana State U.) |
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Gary A. Olson, "Writing, Literacy and Technology: Toward a Cyborg Writing" (1996) (JAC, Georgia State U.) |
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PopCultures.com: Theorists and Critics: Donna Haraway (Sarah J. Zupko) |
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Reverse Transcript - Hyperlink to Donna Haraway (Tsuyoshi Toyofuku) |
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Swirl: Donna Haraway (Southern Oregon U.) |
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Robert M. Young, "Science, Ideology, and Donna Haraway" (1992) (U. Sheffield) |
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Scott Heller, "Wearying of Cultural Studies, Some Scholars Rediscover Beauty" (1998) (article for Chronicle of Higher Education "Colloquy" discussion on "renewed attention to aesthetic criteria in criticism") |
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Houston A. Baker, Jr. Page (Black Cultural Studies Web) |
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Immanuel Wallerstein (see under Marxism below) |
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Earl Jackson, Jr. (U. California, Santa Cruz), Unstill Life / Cultural Studies (online writings by Jackson; includes encounters with the press) |
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Frederic Jameson |
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Frederic Jameson (bibliography) (UC Irvine Critical Theory Resource/Eddie Yeghiayan, U. Calif. Irvine) |
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Frederic Jameson Page (Campus Community, Southern Oregon U.) |
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Sean Homer (Centre for Psychotherapeutic Studies, U. Sheffield), "Fredric Jameson and the Limits of Postmodern Theory" |
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Jameson on the Bonaventure Hotel |
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Synopsis of Fredric Jameson's (one of a number of summaries created by graduate students for the preliminary exam in the University of Chicago's Sociology Dept.) (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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"Theory in the Lobby of the Bonaventure Hotel: The Case of Fredric Jameson" (Re:WIRED; Workshop for the Invention and Research of Electronic Discourse, U. of Florida) |
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Jean Baudrillard (on Literary Theory page) |
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Nancy Kaplan (U. of Baltimore), "E-Literacies: Politexts, Hypertexts and Other Cultural Formations in the Late Age of Print" |
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Karl Marx (see Marxism below) |
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Douglas Kellner (UCLA), "Intellectuals and New Technologies" |
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Claude Lévi-Strauss |
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Claude Lévi-Strauss: The Structural Study of Myth (lecture notes on the essay) (Mary Klages, U. Colorado, Boulder) |
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Louis Althusser (see under Marxism below) |
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María Elena Martínez Torres (U. California, Berkeley), "The Internet: Post-Modern Struggle by the Dispossessed of Modernity" (1997) ("The paradox of the revolution in technology that took world capitalism to a new stage of structure and organization-globalization-is that exactly the same technology has also made possible the creation of a counter-hegemonic movement, the global civil society spurred on by the Zapatistas in Chiapas, Mexico") (Sincronia) |
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George Herbert Mead, Mind, Self, and Society (excerpt) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Robert K. Merton, Bureaucratic Structure and Personality (from Social Theory and Social Structure) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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C. Wright Mills |
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Howard S. Becker (U. California, Santa Barbara), "Professional Sociology: The Case of C. Wright Mills" (1994) |
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The Power Elite (excerpt) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Vance Packard, The Status Seekers (1959) (excerpts) (chapters 1, 2, 10, 19, 22) (Al Filreis, U. Penn) |
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H. B. Paksoy Identities: How Governed, Who Pays? (Lynn Nelson, U. Kansas) |
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Vilfredo Pareto, The Circulation of Elites (from The Mind and Society) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Talcott Parsons |
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Action Systems and Social Systems (from The System of Modern Societies) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Sex Roles in the American Kinship System (from "The Kinship System of the Contemporary United States," in Essays in Sociological Theory) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Synopsis of Institutions and Social Evolution (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of Essays in Sociological Theory: Chap. 2, The Professions and Social Structure (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of "Suggestions for a Sociological Approach to the Theory of Organizations" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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The Unit Act of Action Systems (from The Structure of Social Action) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Paul Gilroy Page (Black Cultural Studies Web) |
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Paul Virilio (on Literary Theory page) |
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Marjorie Perloff (Stanford U.), "Something Is Happening, Mr. Jones" (Electronic Book Review) |
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Mark Poster (U. California, Irvine): Home Page |
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Homepage |
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Essays |
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"CyberDemocracy: Internet and the Public Sphere" |
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"Postmodern Virtualities" |
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Interviews |
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Interview in Seulemonde |
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Nico Poulantzas |
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Synopsis of Political Power and Social Classes (sections on the concept of politics) (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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David N. Rodowick (Cornell U.), Preface to The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Theory (2nd ed., 1994) |
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Ken Sanes, Transparency (site featuring essays by a former newspaper columnist and freelance writer on cultural studies and cyberculture; representative pieces include "Post-Apocalyptic Fiction: Holocaust as Metaphor," "The Electric Horseman: Escape from the |
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Rakefet Sela-Sheffy (Tel Aviv U.), "Models and Habituses: Problems in the Idea of Cultural Repertoire" (1997) |
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Bernhard Serexhe (Center for Art and Media ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany), "Deregulation / Globalisation: The Loss of Cultural Diversity?" (CTHEORY) |
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Georg Simmel |
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"Conflict (Kampf)" (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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(Notebook for Contemporary Continental Philosophy) |
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"The Stranger" (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Synopsis of On Individuality and Social Forms, ed. Donald Levine (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of The Soc |
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Julie Stephens (Victoria U. of Technology), "Cultural Outlaws, Political Organizers" (Excerpt from Anti-Disciplinary Protest: Sixties Radicalism and Postmodernism (1998) (Australian Humanities Review) |
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Synopsis of Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Frederick Winslow Taylor |
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Yonatan Reshef (U. Alberta), Taylor: Scientific Management (brief explanation of Taylorism) |
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Terry Threadgold, "Cultural Studies, Feminist Values: Strange Bedfellows or Sisters in Crime?" (1996) (Australian Humanities Review) |
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Ferdinand Tönnies |
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On Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft (from Community and Society: Gemeinschaft und Gesellschaft) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Synopsis of "Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft" (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Yi-Fu Tuan |
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Peter Monaghan, "Lost in Place" (2001) (retrospective article on the life, career, and "humanist geography" of Yi-Fu Tuan) (Chronicle of Higher Education) |
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Thorsten Veblen |
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"Conspicuous Consumption" (from The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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The Theory of the Leisure Class (McMaster U.) |
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Wahneema Lubiano Page (Black Cultural Studies Web) |
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Max Weber |
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Brief Intro to Weber (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Characteristics of Bureaucracy (from Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Yonatan Reshef (U. Alberta), Weber: The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (brief explanation of Weber) |
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The Spirit of Capitalism (from The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism) (Larry R. Ridener, Radford U.) |
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Synopsis of Methodology of the Social Sciences (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis of The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (Society of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Synopsis Of Economy And Society (Society Of Social Research Page, U. Chicago) |
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Basic Terms (The Fundamental Concepts of Sociology) |
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Class, Status, Party |
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Legitimate Domination |
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Weber on Power and Bureaucracy (from the point of view of business culture) (Business Open Learning Archive) |
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William H. Whyte |
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New York Times Obituary for William H. Whyte (1999) (Al Filreis, U. Penn.) |
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The Organization Man (1956) (substantial selections) (Al Filreis, U. Penn.) |
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