________ ______ is the social theorist that wrote "Discipline and Punish" and "Madness and Civilization".
_________ ______ is the idea that older structures are destroyed to make way for newer ones that function more effectively.
A postmodern development characterized by the coming of age of a wide array of communities that are refuges for strangers and more specifically for ethnic, religious, and political groups.
___________ are fakes; to Baudrillard the contemporary world is coming to be increasingly dominated by the inauthentic.
The decline of boundaries and the collapse of various things into each other; dedifferentiation as opposed to differentiation.
_______ is an alternative explanation of consumption favored by postmodernists. We consume, not because of needs, but in order to be different from other people; such differences are defined by what how we consume.
________ is an extraordinary level of consumption associated with the contemporary world.
________ ______ is the ability of officials at or near the top of an organization to oversee all that they control with a single gaze.
________ is a structure that allows someone in power the possibility of complete observation of a group of people.
The sociology of __________ is a type of sociology that is continuous with modern sociology by being characterized by rational and systematic discourse and by an effort to develop a model of postmodern society.
Homosexual _______ is the persistent sadness that is part of a heterosexual culture in denial of its own homosexuality.
_________ theory emphasize the socially constructed and historically contingent nature of sexuality.
_____ __ ______, to Ritzer, are the things that make consumption possible. Just as the factory makes production possible, the shopping mall enables the consumer and consumption.
________ of power is the idea that power exists at the micro-level and involves efforts to exercise it as well as efforts to contest its exercise.
__________ society is a society characterized by the provision of services rather than goods; professional and technical work rather than blue-collar, manual work; theoretical knowledge rather than practical know-how; the creation and monitoring of new technologies; and new intellectual technologies to handle such assessment and control.