 |  Contemporary Sociological Theory and Its Classical Roots: The Basics George Ritzer,
University of Maryland
Postmodern Grand Theories
Chapter ObjectivesAfter reading Chapter 9, students should be able to:
explain the main differences between an industrial and postindustrial society; |
| | | compare the defining characteristics of modernity and postmodernity; |
| | | explain what Foucault means by governmentality; |
| | | identify the three types of disciplinary power/control; |
| | | apply Foucauldian concepts to explain how the prison system and psychiatric institutions operate; |
| | | differentiate the forms of postmodern politics identified by Bauman; |
| | | explain morality from a postmodern perspective; |
| | | describe how Baudrillard explains consumption, especially what motivates individuals to consume; |
| | | explain the relationship between symbolic exchange and simulations; |
| | | apply the following concepts to describe the new means of consumption: simulations, implosion, phantasmagoria, and creative destruction; |
| | | compare the similarities and differences between the old and new means of consumption; |
| | | describe how Virilio applies the concept of dromology to explain war and endocolonization; and |
| | | explain what feminism and postmodernism have in common and also why some feminists are critical of postmodernism. |
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