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William C. Cockerham - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Note on the Fate of Postmodern Theory and its Failure to Meet the Basic Requirements for Success in Medical Sociology
Social Theory & Health, 2007Co-Authors: William C. CockerhamAbstract:The purpose of this paper is to examine why Postmodern Theory failed to gain a foothold in medical sociology and ultimately became little more than relic of a recent period in sociological thought. The significance of this outcome for medical sociology has not been examined. Yet, the fate of Postmodern Theory is instructive not only in relation to the Theory's strengths and weaknesses but also in relation to what it tells us about the basic fundamentals that any theorizing in medical sociology must include.
Finnegan Jim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Writing to Shake the World: The Historical Avant-Garde, Political Postmodernism and the Post-Avant-Garde
2026Co-Authors: Finnegan JimAbstract:380 p.Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1998.Writing to Shake the World presents a Cultural Studies analysis of reoccurring ideas and issues in critical discussions of Modernism, the Avant-Garde, and Postmodernism. Drawing on Andreas Huyssen's work on the relationship between Modernism, mass culture and Postmodernism, I begin by defining "political Postmodernism" as a critical term that enables a productive tension between avant-garde artist intellectuals and mass media journalism. Writing to Shake the World analyzes this dialectic at three specific moments across a Postmodern continuum in twentieth century American cultural life, ranging from: (1) the New York historical avant-garde of the 1910s, (2) the neo-avant-garde interventions of 1960s Pop Art, and (3) "alternative" music and youth subculture scenes in the 1990s. What I am offering first and foremost is way of reading John Reed and the early(post)modernist disruptions of the New York historical avant-garde--a way of reading, part revisionist literary history and part popular culture criticism, which is appropriate to both Reed and to contemporary Cultural Studies ideas about reading, identity and culture. Locating certain Postmodern moments within the convergence of early modernist art and international Left politics in the 1910s, Part One of Writing to Shake the World argues that we have been spending most of the twentieth century catching up to Reed, who, as one of America's most popular and controversial literary journalists and avant-garde radicals of the 1910s, had an intuitive understanding of discourse, politics, pop culture and public identity which Postmodern Theory and practice would later develop. In Part Two, I leap ahead through a consideration of the neo-avant-garde politics of Warhol's popism as that gets represented in Don DeLillo's novel Mao II, before concluding with an analysis of the more distinctly post-avant-garde disruptions of contemporary "alternative"/Gen X youth culture scenes (ACT UP AIDSdemographics, ZOO TV, Riot Grrrl, Grunge, hip-hop, etc.) as they get represented and disseminated by Spin magazine. By mapping out a cultural terrain that connects John Reed and the historical avant-garde to Spin magazine and the post-avant-garde, this book adds its voice to political Postmodernism's on-going struggle to free itself from the discourses of High Modernism. In doing so, this study may also impact recent reconsiderations of the role of cosmopolitan discourses in Cultural Studies' on-going recuperation and rearticulation of the specifically internationalist cultural-politics initiated by many of Reed's contemporaries, such as Randolph Bourne in his 1916 essay "Trans-National America.".U of I OnlyRestricted to the U of I community idenfinitely during batch ingest of legacy ETD
John C Dawson - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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flow of funds analysis a handbook for practitioners
1996Co-Authors: John C DawsonAbstract:This widely acclaimed work provides a lively counterbalance to the standard assessment-measurement-accountability prescriptions that have made showing you did your job more important than actually doing it. Now extensively revised, it articulates a Postmodern Theory of public administration that challenges the field to redirect its attention away from narrow, technique-oriented scientism, and toward democratic openness and ethics.The authors incorporate insights from thinkers like Rorty, Giddens, Derrida, and Foucault to recast public administration as an arena of decentered practices. In their framework, ideographic collisions and everyday impasses bring about political events that challenge the status quo, creating possibilities for social change. "Postmodern Public Administration" is an outstanding intellectual achievement that has rewritten the political Theory of public administration. This new edition will encourage everyone who reads it to think quite differently about democratic governance.
Ernest Morrell - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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becoming critical researchers literacy and empowerment for urban youth
2004Co-Authors: Ernest MorrellAbstract:Becoming Critical Researchers analyzes the findings of a two-year ethnographic study of the apprenticeship of urban youth as critical researchers of popular culture. Drawing on new literacy studies, critical pedagogy, and sociocultural learning Theory, this book documents the changes in student participation within a critical research-focused community of practice. These changes include the acquisition and development of academic and critical literacies and the resulting translations of these literacies into increased academic performance, greater access to college, and commitment to social action. This book inserts critical and Postmodern Theory into the conception and evaluation of classroom practice and its findings suggest that programs centering on the lived experiences of teens can indeed achieve the goals of critical education, while also promoting academic achievement in urban schools.
Lisa J Cary - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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curriculum spaces discourse Postmodern Theory and educational research
2006Co-Authors: Lisa J CaryAbstract:Historically, moves and counter-moves to define « curriculum have occurred within highly contested terrain. This book studies curriculum as a discursively produced historically, socially, politically and economically inscribed epistemological space. This epistemological approach to studying the knowing subject and research positionality highlights the importance of understanding how we know what we know. This book presents a three-pronged approach - bringing together curriculum Theory, educational research Theory, and exemplars of research projects. Curriculum Spaces is an avant-garde research Theory that analyzes the discursive production of knowing by drawing upon a number of theories (e.g., critical discourse theories and Postmodern theories) to provide a unique lens on education in this historic moment.