Critical social thought

Critical social thought: Critical social thought is an interdisciplinary academic major offered at several liberal arts colleges.

It addresses the fundamental questions about social life and embraces the contours of modern experience and the historical forces that have helped to shape that experience. It examines the prevailing and oppositional currents of thought; cultural representations as well as the technologies of their production and dissemination; the tensions between power and freedom, individuality and society, truth and uncertainty, creativity and order.

The program treats common sense and conventional beliefs as points of departure rather than as predetermined points of arrival. It also supports questioning the taken-for-granted regardless of the political angle from which that questioning takes place. While critical social thought introduces a broad range of established critical genres, it also encourages imaginative thinking through synthesis and bridging tendencies of thought.

Examples of topical concentrations include: Architecture and the social organization of space, disenchantment, peace and conflict, racial and ethnic identities, the Western canon and its critics.

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Origins
Frankfurt School · Freudo-Marxism

Concepts
Critical vocabulary · Binary opposition · Dominant privilege · Phallogocentrism · Reconstructivism

Derivatives
New Historicism · Technocriticism · Critical geography · Critical geopolitics · Critical management studies · Critical psychology · Critical legal studies · Critical pedagogy · Critical ethnography · Critical Practice · Critical medical anthropology · Critical Language Awareness · Critical international relations theory · Critical criminology · Critical design · Critical cartography · Critical applied linguistics · Critical discourse analysis · Critical historiography · Critical psychiatry · Critical social thought · Critical technical practice · Critical race theory · Critical Security Studies · Critical Terrorism Studies

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