https://padlet.com/michael_maxwell/gd5njagrju39 Made with serendipity en-us 2017-08-01 09:49:38 UTC 2023-07-09 08:00:37 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/michael_maxwell/gd5njagrju39/wish/179846361 Postmodernism, in the political sense, posits that individual problems are symptoms of the failing of the society, not the individual. Postmodernists argue that objective truths reflect inherently exploitative and oppressive biases (power-knowledge synthesis of Foucault). This means things such as gender and intelligence either don’t exist or are social constructs. These views are mostly held by the far-left, but some on the far-right hold them too (except the part about gender constructs, but they tend to be skeptical of certain parts of HBD). Postmodernists reject the economic determinism of Marx (Camus hated Communism), related to existentialism. ]]> 2017-08-01 09:59:34 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_maxwell/gd5njagrju39/wish/179846361 https://padlet.com/michael_maxwell/gd5njagrju39/wish/179846389 2017-08-01 10:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/michael_maxwell/gd5njagrju39/wish/179846389 https://padlet.com/michael_maxwell/gd5njagrju39/wish/179846605 Emile Durkheim - father of 'functionalism'
 
elements; namely norms, customs, traditions, and institutions. A common analogy, popularized by Herbert Spencer, presents these parts of society as "organs" that work toward the proper functioning of the "body" as a whole. In the most basic terms, it simply emphasizes "the effort to impute, as rigorously as possible, to each feature, custom, or practice, its effect on the functioning of a supposedly stable, cohesive system". For Talcott Parsons, "structural-functionalism" came to describe a particular stage in the methodological development of social science, rather than a specific school of thought.
 
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