For your second paper, you should pick one group of problems and, by drawing on the primary sources as well as the posted lectures, analyze and critically discuss some of the questions. The questions are meant as a basic orientation and thematic inspiration for your essay. You can focus on the theory and thought of one major thinker (which is recommended) or combine two of them if their work is mutually supportive and relates well to your topic. Your paper should define, in its introduction, what you are going to analyze, clearly state your general thesis, and explain how you are going to argue for your points. A concluding paragraph should revisit what you have accomplished.
The essay should be 3 – 4 pages
Foucault and Bourdieu are both focusing on the relation between language and social power. They advance the analysis by overcoming the focus of universal apriori structures to analyze the social relations of power that produce, within the speaking individuals, certain dispositions (disciplinary selves or social habitus) that generate their identities and sense of self. They do so to a large extent by inculcating discourses and linguistic abilities (broadly constructed) which define the imaginary worlds of situated subjects. How can we understand the relation between language, social power, and the self-understanding of agents? How do discourses, enabled by and situated in social institutions and social practices, influence and shape linguistic meaning? To what extent is the participation in discourse based on social powerand how is symbolic power defined and actualized? How are the linguistic capacities of social agents related to, and shaped by, their social conditions of existence? To what extent is it possible to critique and transcend existing types of socially inculcated self-identity? To what extent is the socially based linguistic capacity completely defining a selfs identity, and which possibilities of other modes of reasoning could there be?
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