Exam 18: Social Theory in the Twenty-First Century

Judith Butler claims that gender and sex are created through social performances.

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

In feminist theories, sex refers to the social constructed roles played by men and women.

Which of the following is a state of the affective being inaccessible to the consciousness?

Which actor-network theory concept calls for an extension of sociology to include new forms of relationships emerging with the expansion of objects in the contemporary world?

Affect theorist claims we entered an era in which social life is primarily governed through emotion and affect.

According to George Ritzer, every act of production necessarily includes some consumption.

Which of the following is a critique levied at queer theory? Select all, but only those that apply.

George Ritzer argues we are currently in a _______ age of capitalism.

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

According to Michel Foucault, the Nineteenth Century development of the sciences of sex including such as psychoanalysis and sexology were the early steps in normalizing homosexuality.

Which of the following describes how affect is spread through biophysical ways, such as hormones and nerves?

Actor-network theory rejects the entire distinction between premodernity, modernity, and postmodernity.

Which of the following describes how affect diffuses through both crowds and individual bodies?

How are consumers exploited in consumer capitalism? Select all, but only those that apply.

Prosumer capitalism uses the labor of prosumers to increase the wealth of a relatively small corporate elite, often without the knowledge of prosumers.

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

Which of the following describes the ways that bodies, ideas, and technologies are hooked up over geographical, cultural, and psychical regions?

Which actor-network theory concept reveals how nonhuman objects have agency?

Which of the following describes how the body nonconsciously moves through the environment via a multitude of forces and energies?