Media iconoclasm: the symbolic power of images

analysis of power in the network society

اندیشمندان و صاحب نظران علوم اجتماعی بر این باورند که مرحله تازه ای در تاریخ جوامع بشری اغاز شده است. ویژگیهای این جامعه نو را می توان پدیده هایی از جمله اقتصاد اطلاعاتی جهانی ، هندسه متغیر شبکه ای، فرهنگ مجاز واقعی ، توسعه حیرت انگیز فناوری های دیجیتال، خدمات پیوسته و نیز فشردگی زمان و مکان برشمرد. از سوی دیگر قدرت به عنوان موضوع اصلی علم سیاست جایگاه مهمی در روابط انسانی دارد، قدرت و بازتولید...

bourdieu and symbolic power

we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociology and politic problems. french sociologist pierre bourdieu's theory practice and symbolic power are our best resource; for understanding social and political fields. this article reviews the language and symbolic power; indicating its function in social and political fields. we need sociology theories, for that understand of sociol...

Symbolic Power without Symbolic Violence?

During recent decades social theory has struggled with the attempt to overcome both subjectivist and structuralist conceptions. In this effort, actors have been understood to construct social reality through their practices. Thus, social practices are socially constructed at the same time. Neither subjects nor objects existed prior to this work of construction; the nature of reality is therefor...

The Affordances of Images: Religious Imagery and Iconoclasm from a Cognitive Perspective

The Protestant reformers’ iconoclasm was not only a theoretical objection to what they considered the idolatry of religious images, but was, as well, a campaign for the removal (more or less violent in different places) and destruction of church art of all kinds. In sixteenthcentury England there was less rioting and smashing than in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands, but the end result...

Symbolic Power in Cultural Contexts SYMBOLIC POWER IN CULTURAL CONTEXTS