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This book is an introduction to current theoretical perspectives in the field of international relations. It carefully develops the systematic connections between older and more recent currents and different paradigmatic perspectives. The aim is to enable students to begin working independently and to bolster their understanding of the fundamental principles and arguments underlying each of the theories.

Lesbians and gays have gone from ""coming out,"" to ""acting up,"" to ""outing,"" meanwhile radically redefining society's views on sexuality and gender. The essays in Inside/Out employ a variety of approaches (psychoanalysis, deconstruction, semiotics, and discourse theory) to investigate representations of sex and sexual difference in literature, film, video, music, and photography. Engaging the figures of divas, dykes, vampires and queens, the contributors address issues such as AIDS, pornography, pedagogy, authorship, and activism. Inside/Out

The role played by the theoretical & quantitative revolution in geography is outlined, with particular emphasis on how geographic theory evolved & came to differ from other discipline-based theories. Differences between the initial descriptive spatial theories & the later normative mathematically based theories are emphasized. The making of geographic theory from economic principles is acknowledged & the way that spatial & nonspatial concepts are linked to provide a powerful, normative, well-formed theory is illustrated. Throughout, emphasis is placed on the reasoning & inferential processes used in theory construction, & essential spatial or geographic processes are acknowledged. The transition between descriptive & analytical models is shown in the context of urban settlement & form. Also detailed is the transition from descriptive to normative to process-based theories as geography matured. 9 Figures, 26 References. Adapted from the source document.

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- I. THEORIES OF IDEOLOGY -- The Levels of Consciousness: Some remarks on sociology of knowledge -- Ideology versus Utopia. A contribution to the analysis of the role of social consciousness in the movement of socio-economic formation -- The Antagonism of Art and Science as a Worldview Component -- II. IDEOLOGY OF THEORIES -- Scientism and Anti-scientism -- Science, that is, Domination through Truth -- Recasting Marxism: Habermas's Proposals -- DISCUSSION -- A Statistical Model of Data Analysis in Interactional Psychology. Comments on the quantitative analysis of the scores of the "S-R" Inventory of Anxiousness -- PERSPEKTIVEN DER PHILOSOPHIE.