Theorists analyzing the distinctive social conditions of late or postmodernity, including the erosion of stable social structures, the proliferation of risk, reflexivity and uncertainty, and the diffusion of power through discourse and everyday practice rather than through a single sovereign center. This group gathers theorists of structuration, risk society, liquid modernity, and the analysis of power and knowledge as productive rather than merely repressive forces, whose work is united by a shared diagnosis of a break with the assumptions of classical and mid-century sociology.
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Established Era Primary Discipline All Postmodern And Late-Modern Social Theory
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1. Wikipedia: Postmodernism
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It emerged in the mid-20th century as a skeptical response to modernism, emphasizing the instability of meaning, rejection of universal truths, and critique of grand narratives.
2. Wikipedia: Sociology
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Sociology is the scientific study of human society that focuses on human social behaviour, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and aspects of culture associated with everyday life.
Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Jacques Derrida
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Distancing himself from the various philosophical movements and traditions that preceded him on the French intellectual scene (phenomenology, existentialism, and structuralism), he developed a strategy called “deconstruction” in the mid 1960s.
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