Chapter Outline

I. Transition from Industrial to Postindustrial Society

1. Postindustrial Society
   1. postindustrial society
2. Differences Between Types of Societies
3. Culture

II. Increasing Governmentality

1. Foucault's Grand Theories
   1. governmentalities
2. Discipline and Punish
3. Instruments of Observation and Control
   1. hierarchical observation
   2. panopticon
   3. disciplinary society
   4. normalizing judgments
   5. examinations
4. Increasing Disciplinary Power
   1. carceral archipelago
   2. microphysics of power
5. Biographical Vignette: Michel Foucault
6. Madness and Civilizaiton
   1. deinstitutionalization
7. Grand Theory of Sexuality

III. Postmodernity as Modernity's Coming of Age

1. Learning to Live with Ambivalence
2. Ambivalence About Modernity
   1. neotribalism
3. Key Concepts
   1. postmodern sociology
   2. sociology of postmodernity
4. Postmodern Politics and Ethics
5. Irresolvable Moral Dilemmas

IV. The Rise of Consumer Society

1. From Producer to Consumer Society
2. Consumption as Language
   1. code
   2. needs
   3. hyperconsumption
   4. difference
3. From Production to Consumption

V. The Loss of Symbolic Exchange and the Increase in Simulations

1. Symbolic Exchange
2. Simulations
   1. hyperreal
3. Biographical Vignette: Jean Baudrillard

VI. Consumer Society and the New Means of Consumption

1. Means of Consumption: Old and New
   1. means of production
   2. means of consumption
   3. new means of consumption
   4. creative destruction
2. Spectacle and Implosion
   1. implosion
3. Key Concepts
   1. phantasmagoria
   2. dream world

VII. Dromology

1. Time and Speed
2. War
3. Endocolonization
4. Virtual Reality

VIII. Feminism and Postmodern Social Theory

IX. Summary

X. Suggested Readings