Doing cultural theory
In: International journal of cultural policy: CP, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 360-362
ISSN: 1477-2833
In: International journal of cultural policy: CP, Band 20, Heft 3, S. 360-362
ISSN: 1477-2833
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Heft 71, S. 123-126
ISSN: 0725-5136
In: PS: political science & politics, Band 44, Heft 4, S. 703-711
ISSN: 0030-8269, 1049-0965
In: International journal of public administration, Band 11, Heft 6, S. 651-677
ISSN: 1532-4265
In: Journal of theoretical politics, Band 7, Heft 1, S. 5-27
ISSN: 1460-3667
In addressing concepts like rationality, functionalism and preference formation, various branches of the new institutionalism are `united by little but a common scepticism towards atomistic accounts of social processes and a common conviction that institutional arrangements and social processes matter'. Great bulks of neoinstitutional thinking are also found within cultural theory which as yet have hardly been acknowledged by the neoinstitutionalists. Although these discrete theories to some extent use similar concepts differently, some applications of these concepts by cultural theory seem so similar to mainstream neoinstitutionalism that we may grant cultural theory the initial status of being an institutional theory. Cultural theory partly pre-empts the criticism raised by the new institutionalists by pinning down endogenous preference formation and by contextually repatriating concepts like functionalism and rationality. Moreover, cultural theory's typological approach can be assessed as a very promising version of the new institutionalism.
In: Telos, Band 15, S. 75-123
ISSN: 0040-2842, 0090-6514
MARSHALL MCLUHAN DEFINES HIS OWN APPROACH AS 'SYSTEMS DEVELOPMENT' INVOLVING A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS CONCERNED WITH THE INNER DYNAMICS OF THE FORM & CONFIGURATION. MCLUHAN'S GENERAL SCHEMA CONCERNS AN HISTORICAL PERIODICITY BUILT ON CULTURAL TRANSFORMATIONS EFFECTED BY CHANGES IN COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDING TO SENSORY STRESS. THE PERIODIZATION YIELDS 4 STAGES: (1) A (PRIMITIVE) COOL AUDIBLE TRIBAL CULTURE WITH THE ORAL TECHNOLOGY OF SPEECH, (2) A (PRECAPITALIST) HOT VISUAL CULTURE WITH THE SCRIBAL TECHNOLOGY OF THE PHONETIC ALPHABET, (3) A (CAPITALIST) HOT VISUAL CULTURE WITH THE MECHANICAL TECHNOLOGY OF PRINT, & (4) THE CURRENT (MONOPOLY CAPITALIST) COOL AUDIBLE-TACTILE CULTURE WITH THE ELECTRIC TECHNOLOGY OF TV & COMPUTER. THE PHASES OF DEVELOPMENT IN MCLUHAN'S THOUGHT CAN BE DISCERNED AS I ('36-'51), II ('52-'58) & III ('59-PRESENT), IN WHICH HE EVOLVES FROM AN ABSTRACT NEGATIVITY TO A COMPLETELY UNCRITICAL POSITIVITY. MCLUHAN DOES NOT CONSIDER COMMUNICATION PRIMARILY AS SR AMONG PEOPLE, BUT AS RELATIONS BETWEEN HUMAN BEINGS & THINGS, & CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THINGS THEMSELVES. MCLUHAN'S TECHNOCRATIC IDEOLOGY TOTALLY EXCLUDES HISTORICAL MOVEMENTS & QUALITATIVE CHANGES WHEN IT EXAMINES FUTURE NEEDS, INTERESTS, VALUES, & GOALS. MCLUHAN FAILS TO RECOGNIZE THAT A PILLAR OF NEOCAPITALIST INTEGRATION IS THE PRODUCTION, MANIPULATION, & APPROPRIATION OF INFORMATION, & THAT THE MEANS OF COMMUNICATION IN THE US ARE STRUCTURALLY & ORGANIZATIONALLY HIERARCHICAL CHANNELS FOR DOMINATION & CULTURAL IMPERIALISM. MCLUHAN'S WORK IS PERMEATED BY TECHNOLOGICAL FETISHISM, CYBERNETIC REIFICATION, IDEALIST MATERIALISM, & A TYPE OF SECULAR RELIGIOSITY. A. KARMEN.
In: International theory: a journal of international politics, law and philosophy, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 446-453
ISSN: 1752-9727
In: Revista mexicana de ciencias políticas y sociales, Band 63, Heft 234
ISSN: 2448-492X
[Los años sesenta y yo: de la revolución cultural a la teoría cultural]ABSTRACTIn this article, the author offers an approach to his personal and academic development during the 1960s and how they laid the foundations for his contributions in the field of sociology. Pointing out those years as a moment in which a tumultuous social conscience, strongly influenced by the New Left, broke with the static rationalization of modernity, the author analyzes his radicalization in Marxism during his student years at Harvard and his eventual distancing from it. He also explores how the Vietman war and specific events of the time shaped an entire generation, through pointing to the possible existence of alternative social orders.RESUMENEn este artículo el autor ofrece un acercamiento a lo que fue su formación personal y académica durante la década de 1960 y cómo ellas sentaron las bases para sus contribuciones en el ámbito de la sociología. Señalando esos años como un momento en el que una tumultuosa conciencia social, fuertemente influida por la Nueva Izquierda, rompió con la racionalización estática de la modernidad, el autor analiza su radicalización en el marxismo durante su estancia en Harvard y su eventual distanciamiento del mismo. Asimismo, relata cómo la guerra de Vietnam y ciertos eventos específicos de la época moldearon a toda una generación, a través de apuntar hacia la posible existencia de órdenes sociales alternativos.
In: International theory: IT ; a journal of international politics, law and philosophy, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 446-494
ISSN: 1752-9719
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In: Telos: critical theory of the contemporary, Band 1973, Heft 15, S. 75-123
ISSN: 1940-459X
In: Teoria politica: Theory of politics = Teoría politica, Band 14, Heft 2, S. 91-108
ISSN: 0394-1248
In: Cultural critique, Band 65, Heft 1, S. 43-66
ISSN: 1534-5203
In: European journal of communication, Band 18, Heft 2, S. 265-270
ISSN: 0267-3231
In: Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology, Heft 71, S. 123
ISSN: 0725-5136
In: Revue française de science politique, Band 60, Heft 2, S. 369-374
ISSN: 0035-2950