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51Foucault, Michel — (1926 84) A controversial French post structuralist philosopher, professor of ‘the history of systems of thought’, who had a pronounced (some say unfortunate) impact on sociology from the mid 1970s onwards. His work defies easy description and… …
52Organization story — Organizational stories are the texts, spoken or written, that usually involve a plot of different interconnected events, binding different characters together about an organization. Stories may be based on actual events or may involve fantastic… …
53Intuition — • A psychological and philosophical term which designates the process of immediate apprehension or perception of an actual fact, being, or relation between two terms and its results Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Intuition …
54Cunt — This article is about the vulgarism. For other uses, see Cunt (disambiguation). Cunt (  /ˈ …
55Queer theory — is a field of Gender Studies that emerged in the early 1990s out of the fields of gay and lesbian studies and feminist studies. Heavily influenced by the work of Michel Foucault, queer theory builds both upon feminist challenges to the idea that… …
56Social constructionism — and social constructivism are sociological and psychological theories of knowledge that consider how social phenomena develop in particular social contexts. Within constructionist thought, a social construction (social construct) is a concept or… …
57French literature of the 17th century — mdash;the so called Grand Siècle mdash;spans the reigns of Henry IV of France, the Regency of Marie de Medici, Louis XIII of France, the Regency of Anne of Austria (and the civil war called the Fronde) and the reign of Louis XIV of France. The… …
58Dispositif — Michel Foucault generally uses the term dispositif, deployment, or apparatus to refer to the various institutional, physical and administrative mechanisms and knowledge structures which enhance and maintain the exercise of power within the social …
59Structuration — The theory of structuration, proposed by Anthony Giddens (1984) in The Constitution of Society (mentioned also in Central Problems of Social Theory , 1979), is an attempt to reconcile theoretical dichotomies of social systems such as… …
60Collective — For other uses, see Collective (disambiguation). A collective is a group of entities that share or are motivated by at least one common issue or interest, or work together on a specific project(s) to achieve a common objective.[citation needed]… …
