postmodern grand theories

IN PROGRESS

Postmodern world(PMW)

flux, constant change, pervasive uncertainty

• has no truth or commonly held stories/narratives, only always chaning social constructs

postindustrial society

D. Bell

• shift from production of goods to providing of services

• manual labor declines, and professional and technical work predominates

• theoretical knowledge rather than practical know-how is essential & key to innovation

hierarchical observations

basic instrument to control/oversee the tools of disciplinary power

• the ability of officials at or near top of an organization to oversee all that they control with a single gaze

panoptication

a structure that allows someone in power(prison guard)the possibility of complete observation of a group of people(prisoners)

disciplinary society

a society in which control over people is pervasive

normalizing judgements

basic instrument to control/oversee the tools of disciplinary power

• the ability of those in power to decide what is normal and abnormal

• those who violate norms, who are abnormal, can then be punished

examination

basic instrument to control/oversee the tools of disciplinary power

• a way of observing subordinates and judging what they are doing

microphysics of power

they type of control linked with the self discipline required by the ever-present byt unseen surveillance of the panopticon

• a binding of knowledge and power

grounded culture

• face-to-face interaction

• created values, beliefs, and normative menaings

• people are moral actors

commodified culture

• produced for capitalist + mass media reasons

• intent is to seduce people to buy

• people as consumers

sign

a unit of communication

• two parts: signifier(physical(tree ex. in-class)), & signified(meanings; nature, hiking, etc.)

deconstruction

analytic technique used to demonstrate the nature of taken-for-granted social realities, especially the role of binary linguistic categories that create social reality

heterosexuality matrix

Judith Butler

• life is organized by this

• a cultural framework that makes it appear as if heterosexuality was the natural form of sexuality

compulsory heterosexuality

the heterosexuality matrix imposes this social system where heterosexuality is view as viable and respectable