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. 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.

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.

## See also

* Academic major
* Undergraduate degree

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Critical theory

Origins|

* Frankfurt School
* Freudo-Marxism

Concepts|

* Critical vocabulary
* Binary opposition
* Dominant privilege
* Phallogocentrism
* Reconstructivism

Derivatives|

* Archetypal literary criticism
* New historicism
* Technocriticism

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* applied linguistics
* cartography
* criminology
* design
* discourse analysis
* ethnography
* geography
* geopolitics
* historiography
* international relations theory
* language awareness
* legal studies
* management studies
* medical anthropology
* pedagogy
* practice
* psychiatry
* psychology
* race theory
* security studies
* social thought
* technical practice
* terrorism studies

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Theorists|

* Herbert Marcuse
* Theodor W. Adorno
* Max Horkheimer
* Walter Benjamin
* Erich Fromm
* Friedrich Pollock
* Leo Löwenthal
* Jürgen Habermas
* Alfred Schmidt
* Axel Honneth
* Siegfried Kracauer
* Otto Kirchheimer

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