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‘Clear and accessible – Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory makes difficult ideas available to an undergraduate audience’ -Larry Ray, Professor of Sociology, University of Kent The SAGE Key Concepts series provides students with accessible and authoritative knowledge of the essential topics in a variety of disciplines. Cross-referenced throughout, the format encourages critical evaluation through understanding.Written by experienced and respected academics, the books are indispensable study aids and guides to comprehension.Key Concepts in Critical Social Theory:• Provides brief accounts of the central ideas behind the key concepts of critical social theory• Prepares students to tackle primary texts and/or gives them a point of reference when they find themselves stuck • Discusses each concept in an introductory way • Offers further reading guidance for independent learning• Is essential reading for undergraduates in sociology and across the social sciences.
Deconstruction
Deconstruction
Related concepts: discourse, doxa, ideology, power/knowledge, symbolic power.
Of all of the writers whose ideas are catalogued in this book, Derrida is perhaps the most slippery. Many ‘critical theorists’ (in the broad sense of the term) seek to challenge the academic establishment in one way ...
