Research on how social structures form, reproduce themselves, and break down. This module draws on critical theory, affect theory, political economy, and radical political theory, with particular attention to settler-colonialism, governance, and the mechanisms by which liberal order maintains itself under conditions of structural crisis.
Topics
- Kyriarchism — systems of intersecting domination
- Settler Colonialism
Disciplines
- Legalism — law as a social structure: how legal systems produce legibility, enforce hegemony, and format the conditions of community organization
Schools
- Cybernetic Postliberalism — the school of thought in which californication and related concepts function
Key terms
- Californication — the recursive liberal worlding system that formats crisis as authenticity
- Industrial intellectualism — intellectual labor formatted by its market of circulation
- Neurotic platformal intellectual — the subject position produced by platform-industrialized confession
- Feeling rules — Hochschild’s concept of prescribed affect
- Cruel optimism — attachment to conditions that prevent their own resolution
- Concepts of Sociology
- Disciplines of Sociology
- Schools of Sociology
- Sociology Texts
- Texts of Sociology
- Topics of Sociology
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