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commodification
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Postmodernist Theory
the process by which phenomena, including people, are treated as products to be acquired and used |
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discursive structures
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Michael Foucalt's term for deeply esconced ways of thinking about and expressing identity and conducting social life
ex: gender, race, ethnicity, socioeconomic class |
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grand narrative
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a coherent story that a culture tells about itself, its practices, and its values
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micropolitics
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resistance to existing structures and practices of power at local, sometimes personal levels associated with post modernist assumption that power itself is often not located in one central place but diffused throughout society
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modernity
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end of 19 century - the the start of world war I
the period in which society was believed to be coherent and absolute truth was though to be knowable through the methods of science. high and low culture was distinguished, individuals were assumed to be rational, autonomous and stable |
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nihilism
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the denial of any absolute bias for making meaningful distinctions among values, moral codes, social practices, and forms of social organization
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postmodernism
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an intellectual and political movement that began after world war II and flourished in the 1950s and 1960s. it challenges the modernist views that life is orderly, the self is coherent, and a particular social order is natural and right
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relational self
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Postmodern Theory
a self that has no stable core but is formed in particular relationships and changes as it enters and leaves relationships |
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sous rateur
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"under erasure"
Jaques Derrida (post modernist) came up with to call attention to the necessity of words to refer to phenomena and simultaneously the inability of words to fully represent them |
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subject
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Post Modern Theory
distinguish persons as individuals and to call attention to subjectivity as a way of being - a process, not a fixed essence |
