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Dick Hebdige: Subculture: The Meaning of Style
Sigmund Freud – The Uncanny
Sigmund Freud – The Uncanny
Emile Durkheim - "What is Social Fact?"
Emile Durkheim - Division of Labor in Society
Emile Durkheim - Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Emile Durkheim - Suicide
The Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington
Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
Orientalsim / Edward Said
Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit
Gayatri Spivak / "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Emile Durkheim - Division of Labor in Society
Emile Durkheim - Elementary Forms of Religious Life
Emile Durkheim - Suicide
The Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington
Benedict Anderson - Imagined Communities
Orientalsim / Edward Said
Hegel - Phenomenology of Spirit
Gayatri Spivak / "Can the Subaltern Speak?"
Roland Barthes - The Death of the Author
Mikhail Bakhtin: "Carnival and Carnivalesque"
Betty Friedan – "The Problem That Has No Name"
Judith Butler / Gender Trouble
Betty Friedan – "The Problem That Has No Name"
Judith Butler / Gender Trouble
Georg Simmel – The Metropolis and Mental Life
Georg Simmel - The Stranger
Georg Simmel - The Stranger
Clifford Geertz: "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight
Clifford Geertz: Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
Roland Barthes - Myth Today
Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
David Rosenhan - Being Sane in Insane Places
The Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington
The End of History and the Last Man / Francis Fukuyama
Orientalsim / Edward Said
Stanley Fish -Is There a Text in This Class?
Thomas Kuhn - he Structure of Scientific Revolutions
On Liberty / JS Mill
Clifford Geertz: Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture
Roland Barthes - Myth Today
Max Weber - The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Erving Goffman - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
David Rosenhan - Being Sane in Insane Places
The Clash of Civilizations - Samuel Huntington
The End of History and the Last Man / Francis Fukuyama
Orientalsim / Edward Said
Stanley Fish -Is There a Text in This Class?
Thomas Kuhn - he Structure of Scientific Revolutions
On Liberty / JS Mill