SOCIOL 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Post-Structuralism, Fetishism, Simulacrum
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Post-structuralist (foucault, baudrillard, lyotard)-negative in all of the rows. Schutz: natural and social sciences are different social science is engaged in experience, which makes it different from natural science. Po-mo and post-struct: distinction between social and natural sciences is not important neither social nor natural are actually an example of the d-n model neither social science nor natural science really used d-n theories, so they are similar. Marx: political economy of production (modern economy, commodities circulate) Baudrillard: political economy of consumption (postmodern economy, signs circulate) Use value/signi ed both point to fundamental characteristics of objects that represent meaning (concept) Exchange value/signi er: both point to a physical object that meaning can be attached to (sound/image)- shorts in chicago. Generalization of veblen all social groups can use signs to mark social status not just the wealthy. Baudrillard shows how fetishism of commodity can work without use value.
