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1 online resource (xvii, 392 p.) The contributions in this 22nd volume of "Current Perspectives in Social Theory" explore the arguments for and against a view of the world in which multiple, distinct and conflicting societies differ both over time and contemporaneously. Part I: Bringing Marxism back ... with Foucault -- Foucoult's encounter with Marxism / Paul Paolucci -- Part II: Critical theories of knowledge: epistemology and culture -- Afrocentricity and the Eurocentric hegemony of knowledge: contradictions of place / Molefi Kete Asante -- Epistemology, culture and rhetoric: some social implications of human cognition / Thomas J. Burns and Terri LeMoyne -- Films and utopia: the culture industry revisited / James J. Dowd -- Part III: Social structures, theories and movements -- Cybercritique: a social theory of online agency and virtual structures / Timothy W. Luke -- Rationalism and traditionalism in classical sociology and contemporary feminist theory / Mary Godwyn -- The duality of systems: networks as media and outcomes of movement mobilization / Jeff Livesay -- Part IV: Bridging the African diaspora in the new millennium (selected papers from the eponymous conference at the University of Nebraska, Februrary 2001) -- Re-visioning race: dismantling whiteness / Gerise Herndon -- The phychological and spiritual implications of western Christian missionaries' influence on the African diaspora: special reference to West African countries / Joshua Olayiwola Oyekan -- Part V: Critical theory (selected papers from the Conference of the Socialogical Theory Section, International Socialogical Association, University of Cambridge, September 2000) -- How is society possible? Towards a metacritique of reification / Fr�ed�eric Vandenberghe -- The form of difference: reimagining critical theory / Nancy Weiss Hanrahan -- Prolegomena to an intercultural critical theory / Fuyuki Kurasawa -- Pragmatism versus socialogical hermeneutics / Patrick Baert -- Subjectivity, culture, autonomy: Castadoriadis and social theory / Anthony Elliott. edited by Jennifer M. Lehmann. Social sciences Philosophy Knowledge, Theory of Social theory Social Science Sociology General H61 .C76 2003 301.01 316 New York : JAI, 2003 (OCoLC)51722690 9781849501774 (electronic bk.) : 1849501777 (electronic bk.) : http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0278-1204/22 http://www.emeraldinsight.com/0278-1204/22 ZJC 100913 20171018091355.0 ocn663899361 eng