SOAN 375 - From Modernity To Postmodernity

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Lewis & Clark College

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Goldman Content: Mapping the world-historical changes in social, economic, and cultural organization that theorists call postmodernity. The transition from modernity to postmodernity; transformations in the political economy of technoscience and the information society; development of a society of the spectacle; shifting conceptions of identity and agency; relations of time, space, and commodification in the era of global capitalism. May include Antonio Gramsci, Walter Benjamin, Stuart Hall, Michael Foucault, Manuel Castells, Zygmunt Bauman, Judith Butler, Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, Donna Haraway, David Harvey, Paul Virilio, Celeste Olaquiaga. Prerequisite: Sociology/Anthropology 300; and two 200-level sociology/anthropology courses; or consent of instructor. Taught: Alternate years, 4 semester credits.

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3.00

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Institution Website:

www.lclark.edu/

Phone Number:

(503) 768-7000

Regional Accreditation:

Northwest Commission on Colleges and Universities

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Semester

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