Terms+&+Concepts

The following is a list of theoretical terms and concepts members of COMM 802 students studied, researched, and compiled in Spring 2013, listed in no particular order.
- qualitative - interpretivist - (post) foundationalism - objectivity / subjectivity - social theory - liberal humanism - Enlightenment - historical materialism - mode of production - industrialization - labor, division of labor - base / superstructure - ideology - "false consciousness" - commodity, commodity fetish - use value / exchange value - capital(ism) - Industrial Reserve Army - neoliberalism - informatization - globalization: (multiculturalism, global civil society, cosmopolitanism, postcolonial studies) - public sphere

- publics, counterpublics - neodemocracy - zero institution (the net) - imagined communities / nationalism - hegemony

- civil society - mass culture, massification

- pseudoindividualism - loss of aura - cultural studies

- circuit of culture - encoding / decoding - reflexive projects of self - semiotics - sign / signifier / signified - icon / index / symbol - connotation / denotation - binary dualisms - work v. text - structuralism - poststructuralism - New Criticism - postmodernism - postmodernity - intertextuality - paratexts - polyphony - polysemy - self-identity projects - marxism, mode of production - pragmatism - subjectivity, critiques of objectivity - double consciousness - reflexivity - identity projects - pragmatism - relativism - perception - irrationalism - narratives as social symbols - orientalism - postcolonialism - ethnographic authority - interpretive ethnography - experience / interpretation - power: sovereign / modern - panopticism - subject, subject position, subjectivity - discourse - affect, emotion - performativity - heteronormativity - software studies - simulacrum - hauntings - history, historiography - poststructural historiography - archeology - genealogy - traces, clues - revisionist history - sex, gender, sexuality - cyborg - Self / Other - queer theory, queer studies, lgbt studies - (anti) normalization - Westernization - Racial formation: social process, projects, hegemony - Whiteness

Pastiche: Problematize: Roth
 * **Discourse ** - noun //(Tierney)//
 * Origin: Latin: discursus, discurrere – to run about, running to and fro
 * Merriam Webster:
 * The capacity of orderly thought or procedure: rationality
 * Verbal interchange of ideas; especially: conversation
 * Wikipedia:
 * Term that describes written and spoken communications; denotations include:
 * Semantics and discourse analysis: A generalization of the concept of conversation within all modalities and contexts
 * The totality of codified language (vocabulary) used in a given field of intellectual enquiry and of social practice, such as legal discourse, medical discourse, religious discourse, et cetera.
 * Foucault/social theoreticians: discourse describes “an entity of sequences, of signs, in that they are enouncements (énoncés)”
 * **Praxis - ** noun //(Tierney)//
 * Origin: Latin/Greek: prassein – to do, practice
 * Merriam Webster
 * Action, practice: as
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Exercise or practice of an art, science, or skill
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Customary practice or conduct
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Practical application of a theory
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Wikipedia:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Praxis
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Praxis is practice in the sense of simply doing something, either in the present or regularly. Praxis does not include rehearsal or training, for which the "real" action in question will happen in the future.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Praxis (Process)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, practiced, embodied, or realized. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Materialism **<span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">- noun //(Tierney & Roth)//
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">(Economic) Materialism
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">A preoccupation with or stress upon material rather than intellectual or spiritual things (Merriam-Webster)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The excessive desire to acquire and consume material goods. It is often bound up with a value system which regards social status as being determined by affluence as well as the perception that happiness can be increased through buying, spending and accumulating material wealth (Wikipedia)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Deals with consumerism and superficial acquisition, not the same as historical materialism (class)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Historical Materialism
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">The Marxist theory of history and society that holds that ideas and social institutions develop only as the superstructure of a material economic base (Merriam-Webster)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">A methodological approach to the study of society, economics, and history; looks for the causes of developments and changes in human society in the means by which humans collectively produce the necessities of life (Wikipedia)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Has to do with analyzing different aspects of production and studying how things are arranged/structured; method for studying modes of production and change over time (class)