Exam 18: Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century

Which actor-network theory concept shifts focus from human agents to networks amongst nonhuman objects?

A central claim of queer theory is that, as binaries, heterosexuality and homosexuality define each other and hence depend for their meaning on each other.

Judith Butler calls for the creation of a space for gays and lesbians within heterosexual culture.

How do prosumer capitalists exploit people? Select all, but only those that apply.

Which of the following is a basic concept of affect theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

Judith Butler calls for the replacement of heterosexual social organization with a presumably more open and liberating homosexual social organization.

Which is a hallmark emerging from Stein and Plummer's attempt to identify the characteristics of queer theory?

Which of the following is a critique levied at queer theory?

Which of the following describes the ways that bodies, ideas, and technologies are hooked up in relationship to one another?

Which of the following is a concern of presumption theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

Which is a meaning of queer? Select all, but only those that apply.

Which actor-network theory concept reveals that entities do not exist in any essentialist sense but rather are achieved through relations or networks?

According to Judith Butler, gender and desire are automatic possessions of a body.

Affect theorists have produced politically charged analyses in the spirit of which types of theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

Robert Merton used his functionalist approach to conceptualize science as a middle-range social institution that was governed by norms.

Which of the following describes the efforts to combat the linking of bodies, ideas, and technologies over geographical, cultural, and psychical regions?

Why does Judith Butler think that "bodies matter?" Select all, but only those that apply.

Which of the following which concerns itself with the study of technology and science?

According to Judith Butler, gender and desire are brought into existence in performance.

According to Patricia Clough, the body-as-organism of the 19th century was a self-enclosed body that was created and reproduced through labor and consumption.