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This introduction to postmodernism offers a comprehensive
examination of postmodern theory and its application to the study
of society. It surveys the work of theorists and explores the
potential and limits of postmodern analysis across key areas of
development, including deconstruction, semiotics, the new
ethnography and feminist theory. This guide should be suitable as
an undergraduate text for social and cultural theory courses and
should appeal to students of social research methods.
This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and
neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest
in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of
contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief
biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist's work
and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more
contemporary social issues. While other similar texts tend to focus
primarily on intellectual biography, our emphasis here is on the
scholar's theories and their application to contemporary social
issues. We provide a contextualization of each scholar's work,
using present-day social issues or problems. Many of these
individuals played a significant role in the development of
sociology. Our hope is to provide a resource that will help
re-integrate these marginalized social theorists, rescuing them
from obscurity and elevating their status.
Electronic Dance Music: From Deviant Subculture to Culture Industry
explores the subculture's emergence as a deviant subculture. This
text analyzes how industry professionals, fans, and public
officials helped usher in a new age of EDM, arguing that while the
defining features of the subculture made it attractive, they also
laid the foundations for outsiders to commodify the movement as a
culture industry. Conner and Dickens explore the concept of
"commodified resistance" as the mechanism by which the movement's
politically dissident features were removed and its place as a
multi-billion-dollar industry made possible. Ultimately, this text
advocates the continued utility of the culture industry thesis
through an empirical analysis of the EDM subculture.
Neglected Social Theorists of Color: Deconstructing the Margins
provides a novel contribution to the ongoing debates concerning the
canon in contemporary sociological theory. In particular, the
editors argue that many scholars whose work may hold significant
potential for contributions to contemporary debates in social
theory go unrecognized. Still others, while not completely ignored,
have fallen victim to a cultural and political climate not
receptive to their work. Feminist scholars have been in the
forefront of these debates, arguing that many insightful social
theorists have been marginalized because of their gender. More
recently, studies of individual theorists of color have appeared,
but these have been limited to African American scholars such as
W.E.B. Du Bois. In the present text, the editors extend this
approach to include a broad diversity of theorists of color,
including those of African American, Afro-Caribbean, Latinx, Asian,
Asian American, and Native American backgrounds. In addition, the
editors also include the work of authors who come from academic
fields outside of sociology and others who are journalists,
activists, or independent writers. The work has a unique format,
where the authors of each chapter provide a theoretical analysis of
their subject and a discussion of the contemporary significance of
their work, lending to a rich discussion of underappreciated
sociological scholars.
This edited volume highlights the work of ten forgotten and
neglected social theorists in the hope of reinvigorating interest
in their work and their potential contributions to the analysis of
contemporary social issues. Each chapter includes a brief
biographical sketch, an overview of the selected theorist's work
and significance, and the relevance of their work to one or more
contemporary social issues. While other similar texts tend to focus
primarily on intellectual biography, our emphasis here is on the
scholar's theories and their application to contemporary social
issues. We provide a contextualization of each scholar's work,
using present-day social issues or problems. Many of these
individuals played a significant role in the development of
sociology. Our hope is to provide a resource that will help
re-integrate these marginalized social theorists, rescuing them
from obscurity and elevating their status.
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