Titlebook: Social Theory; A New Introduction Mark Murphy Textbook 2021 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Spr

compassion

The Self self through the prism of modern and postmodern theory; the relational turn in self-theory and alternative theories of the self, including the theory of performativity (Judith Butler) and subjectivation (Michel Foucault).

杂役

The Bodyelled and marginalised—for example, ‘disabled’, ‘abnormal’ and so on; the concept of habitus as developed by both Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias, as well as theoretical developments relating to gender and gender theory, including the work of Judith Butler on the relation between the body and sexuality.

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女歌星

Introduction,of the book which is divided into three broad sections—understanding the state, understanding the social and understanding the self. It also offers some introductory thoughts on the definition of social theory, while also highlighting its relevance to people’s everyday concerns.

观点

狂热文化

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entail

exercise

Provenance

Language everyday life. There have been numerous contributions to debates over the social nature of language, and this chapter details some of the more significant theories in this field. The chapter is organised around the following areas: language and the linguistic turn; key examples of the linguistic tu