Social Theory, Power and Practice

By: Jerry Dr Tew

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Hardcover | 9 November 2002 | Edition Number 1

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Social Theory, Power and Practice explores key strands of contemporary social theory in developing an innovative framework for understanding the operation of power. This draws on structural theories of inequality and oppression and poststructural deconstructions of discourse, identity and emotion. These are used to examine the dynamics of social and personal change, and to inform the development of empowering practice within the human services with those who may experience distress, abuse or exclusion.

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List of Figures	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
Introduction	p. 1
Everything in its Proper Place? Modernism and Postmodernism	p. 10
Modernism and modernity	p. 10
Critical theory	p. 17
Postmodernism	p. 19
Modernist practice	p. 24
Postmodern practice	p. 29
Exposing Conflict: Structural Approaches to Power and Inequality	p. 33
Objective, material and real: unpicking ontologies	p. 33
Structural theory	p. 37
Theories of class and capital	p. 39
Theories of gender, age, sexuality and (dis)ability: extending concepts of patriarchy	p. 45
Theories of imperialism, colonialism and racism	p. 53
Integrating structural theories	p. 58
Structural theory and social activism	p. 60
What's the Story? Poststructuralism, Discourse and Narrative	p. 65
Ideology and culture	p. 65
Discourse and narrative	p. 68
Poststructuralism and language	p. 71
Approaches to deconstruction	p. 75
Psychoanalysis and language	p. 80
Foucault and the archaeology of the modern	p. 82
The politics of knowledge: social constructionism and standpoint epistemologies	p. 85
Poststructural practice: working with language and narrative	p. 88
Hidden Depths: Reclaiming Emotionality	p. 97
Emotionality under modernism	p. 98
Shifts within modernism: emotion in psychology and sociology	p. 104
The question of desire	p. 108
Critical perspectives: power relations and emotionality	p. 110
Theorising emotionality as a distinct level of social experience	p. 114
Witnessing and mobilising emotions: issues for practice	p. 116
Stepping out: (De)constructing Identities	p. 121
Decentring the subject	p. 122
Performing identities	p. 126
Opening up the psyche	p. 129
The art of projection	p. 138
Conscripting 'the body'	p. 140
Reflexive identities	p. 143
'Cutting up and remoulding': working with identities	p. 146
Relations of Power	p. 152
Power and modernism	p. 152
Theories of oppression and discrimination	p. 156
Foucault and the dispersal of power	p. 159
Reclaiming productive aspects of power	p. 162
A matrix of power relations	p. 165
Reconceptualising empowerment	p. 167
Power in practice	p. 170
Systems, Instabilities and Change	p. 177
Systems, harmony and change	p. 177
Agency and subjectivity	p. 180
Generative tensions: power and contradiction	p. 182
Power relations and the dynamics of change	p. 184
Crisis and resolution	p. 186
Strategies for emancipatory change: towards a critical practice	p. 194
Conclusions for Theory and Practice	p. 203
Bibliography	p. 207
Index	p. 227
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