Action theory, phenomenological sociology, pragmatism and (post)structuralism are often seen as mutually exclusive currents of meaning analysis. This book shows that these traditions are actually complementary, and builds a neostructuralist synthesis on this finding. It also outlines the implications of this cultural theoretical synthesis for the field of social theory. What emerges is a variant of the theory of practice, habit and structuration of society. It shares the contemporary common belief that social theory should be based on cultural theory. Its distinctive mark is that this is done in systematic semiotic terms within a conception which provides mediation between the two most influential schools of semiotics, namely Charles Peirce's American pragmatism and Ferdinand de Saussure's French structuralism.
In this work, I investigate certain aspects of how, among the multitude of unviable tasks that it set itself, modernity failed to invest in the management of social peace and restriction of warfare. The aim of my work is, therefore, to demonstrate and examine the fact that never before the modern times did we witness wars of such destructive potential. I place myself in the contemporary context of the 20th and 21st centuries with an effort to understand the agenda which is used as a basis for wars nowadays being led and justified while pronouncing their victims collateral damage. In doing so, I seek theoretical foundation in the scholarships of Michel Foucault and Zygmunt Bauman. Foucauldian concepts of biopower and state racism are presented as the ideological staple of modern warfare, while Bauman's arguments serve to showcase the organizational and technical facets of modernity which ensure social consent to armed conflicts through the processes of bureaucratization and technologization. Finally, I apply the conclusions of the work to identify biopolitical and Baumanian patterns in the current American foreign policy and the mechanisms behind its "war on terror".
Organized by Eduardo Vera-Cruz Pinto and Marco Antonio Marques da Silva. In order to analyze these issues of global importance, the book that is now being presented is Education, Society and Violence (Educa o, Sociedade e Viol ncia), the result of the Research Incentive Plan by PUC-SP-PIPEq, in the form of Collection Book Publishing (PubLivroPUCSP), features articles by national and foreign professors, as well as master's and doctoral students from our educational institution; There are also lecturers from Portuguese (Lisbon and European), Italian (Bologna, Camerino and Istituto San Vincenzo Pallotti - Rome) and Spanish (Santiago de Compostela, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and Almeria) universities. We would like to point out that this work is also the scientific production of the members of the Human Dignity and Democratic Rule of Law Research Group at PUC-SP.
This book will interest anyone seeking a comprehensive understanding of the psychological relationship between individual psychological dynamics, social structure and the unconscious collective paradigms. It focuses on an analysis of patriarchal culture, which is, as it were, the psychological enclosure in which all individual and collective processes take place.Starting from the genesis and current structure of this culture, the strong social changes of the last 50 years are examined:the change in relations between men and womensocial relations in terms of solidarity and desolidarisationthe situation of social security the social and political power relations, andthe economic dynamics.At the same time, collective fantasies are elaborated that emerge from the socio-structural changes. The basis of the study is psychoanalytical cultural theory in the form of a cultural-critical deconstruction of its fundamental assumptions. In 16 interesting chapters, essential questions of psychological cultural theory are answered and practical applications of this theory to current sociostructural processes are shown.
