From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features: a concise introduction to the major debates of the twentieth century, placing them in historical and philosophical context information on thinkers of the...
From its first edition in 1979, Perspectives in Sociology has provided generations of undergraduates with a clear, reassuring introduction to the complications of sociological theory. This revised and updated edition features: a concise introduction to the major debates of the twentieth century, placing them in historical and philosophical context information on thinkers of the nineteenth and early twentieth century whose relevance to modern social thought is only now being recognized, e.g. Nietszche, Saussure, Simmel connections drawn between post-structuralist thinkers like Foucault and Derrida and the founding figures of sociology: Marx, Weber and Durkheim a completely rewritten chapter on the 'Synthesisers' - Bourdieu, Habermas and Giddens - and their attempts to generate a consensus from the apparently conflicting theories of their predecessors a new chapter reviewing the rise of British sociology, with particular reference to the political context and the changing role of 'class' in sociological thinking a new chapter describing the attempts of sociological theorists to explain current concerns, problems, and issues in the areas of gender, (homo)sexuality, and ethnicity in the context of the postcolonial world. While retaining its emphasis and wealth of information on the founding figures of sociology, this fifth edition now features a new easy-to-read format, (with particular attention paid to the linking and cross-referencing of chapters), and includes much new material on contemporary social theory with particular reference to its attempts to tackle current problems and issues in the areas of gender, sexuality, and ethnicity in the postcolonial context.
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In it [One Dimensional Man] Marcuse coined the expression 'repressive tolerance' to exploit precisely the apparently contradictory nature of the conjunction of its two terms.
Thus to tolerate diversity is not to tolerate real revolutionary determination, since no REAL revolutionary threat is allowed; instead, it is defused, and dissent is regularised into merely another and inconsequential activity within the system ('bought off', in a way). Dissenting ideas are turned into commodities, into commercialised products of the system: they can be harmlessly (and profitably) disseminated as books, television programmes and films. Critical, even revolutionary, thought is reduced to a kind of leisure activity. (查看原文)
Normalising in matters of physical health, mental outlook or practical conduct might superficially seem to be done to benefit the individual, but the ways these practices are built up derive very commonly out of a conception of the necessity for the authorities to manage the population; these normalising practices are ways of rendering the population tractable to the managerial activities of the (characteristically state) authorities. It is not what the individual wants, but what the system is deemed to need, that is the decisive consideration. (查看原文)
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