What is critical urban theory? While this phrase is often used in a descriptive sense, to characterize the tradition of post‐1968 leftist or radical urban studies, I argue that it also has determinate social–theoretical content. To this end, building on the work of several Frankfurt School ...
Critical thinking is among the first causes for change (personal and social) but is a pariah in schools –for no other reason than it conditions the mind to suspect the form and function of everything it sees, including your classroom and everything being taught in it. ...
What is critical theory in relation to power?The Frankfurt School:The Frankfurt School is often considered to be made up of the thinkers of Frankfurt's Institute for Social Research in the 1920s and 1930s who would relocate first to Geneva and then to the US to continue their work during ...
There seems to be a bit of confusion of what critical theory is. Part of this confusion is being spread by the general chorus ofCPACpseudo-intellectual writers who argue that Horkheimer and Adorno were merely intent upon the overthrow of the West. Horkheimer, dabblers in actual history may r...
Contagion theory or social contagion theory was first introduced by Gustave Le Bon in 1885 and was later developed by Robert Park and Herbert Blumer. It talks about the collective behavior of individuals and the tendency to be easily influenced by the crowd. According to them, people's behavior...
Critical race theory (CRT) is a school of thought meant to emphasize the effects of race on one's social standing. It arose as a challenge to the idea that in the two decades since theCivil Rights Movementand associated legislation, racial inequality had been solved and affirmative action was...
To truly understand the term, it's important to dwell a bit on the word "theory." Critical race theory isn't like a scientific theory that can be tested with an experiment (and answered with a right or wrong answer). It is more like Foucault's theory of power, which provides a clari...
Social Contract Theory SocialContractTheorySocialcontracttheory‚ nearly as old as philosophy itself‚ is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon acontractor agreement among them to form the society in which they live. Socrates uses som...
用谷歌搜索的结果来开启这本书也许是最为后人类主义的姿态。正如我在2008年夏天所写的那样,如果你在谷歌上搜索“人文主义”(humanism),会得到384万条结果;而搜索“后人类主义”(posthumanism)只能得到将近6.02万条(人文主义显然还好好地存活着,尽管有人说它已经消亡了)。粗略一看你就会发现,尽管在数量上有着差别,...
Critical thinking is a practice that has been debated and honed for around 2,500 years, but the term itself was likely first introduced in 1910 by American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer John Dewey. In his bookHow We Think,Dewey described critical thinking as an “active, ...