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• Discourse
  The term ''discourse'' has become one of the key terms in the vocabulary of the humanities and the social sciences. For within the
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• Edward Said
  == Key ideas == Several key ideas can be distinguished throughout Said's work. This key ideas will be discussed on this page. Very important are ''Orientalism'' an
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• Felix Guattari
  Many other (contemporary) key thinkers refer to this product in their own work. For example [[Michel Fouc ...tion, and psychoanalysis into desiring production, analyzing the former in terms of
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• Jacques Derrida
  ...ways a difference between those two. An example is the paradox between the terms production and consumption. Shops and factories are different but they are * ''Page category 'Persons' and 'Key thinkers' added by Robert-Jan Ruifrok -- [[User:RobertJanRuifrok|RobertJanR
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• Karl Marx
  ...eois and proletarian. Or, to put in other words Marx defined capitalism in terms of the relation between a class of free wage laborours and a class of capit ... the relevance of Marx’s ideas. However, the interest in Marx remained a key starting point for the grand philosophers of the post-Marxist period. (Aitk
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• Max Weber
  Max Weber was one of the key thinkers of the instrumental rationalist [[action theory]]. This contains t ...l action requires at least one person to give meaning to his behaviour, in terms of the subjective experiences of other people (intention, motives, feelings
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• Michel Foucault
  == Key concepts == ... of environment (Philo, 2000, p.221). Foucault tended to think of space in terms of orders and forms of spatial reasoning that classifies and categorizes in
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• Pierre Bourdieu
  Key terms in Bourdieu's sociological thought are social field (‘champ’), capital The last key concept of Pierre Bourdieu's theory is the concept of 'fields'. He states t
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• Sigmund Freud
  ... In his opinion physical and mental systems cannot be described in spatial terms, a discription will be fictious and crude (Jones, 1953). Hubbard, P., Kitchin, R., Valentine, G. (2004). Key thinkers on Space and Place. London: SAGE Publications Ltd
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• Trialectics
  ...thought, much like the 'unconscious and culture'. ... After all, since two terms are not sufficient, it becomes necessary to introduce a third term.. The th ...e, centre and periphery... [But] is there ever a relation only between two terms...? One always had Three. There is always the Other(Lefebvre in Soja, 1996)
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• Yi-Fu Tuan
  == Key contributions (humanistic geography) == Tuan uses two terms to describe human emotions towards place: ''Topophobia'' and ''topohilia''.
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• Action theory
  ... are of significance to others (ibid., p. 173). Social action then forms a key role as a transformative power in the course of human history and shifting
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• Language games
  ...ir being “part of an activity”, [[Ludwig Wittgenstein]] introduces the key concept of ‘language-game’. He never explicitly defines it since this n ...ders' language-game, in which a builder and his assistant use exactly four terms (block, pillar, slab, beam), is utilized to illustrate that part of the Aug
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• Agency and Agent
  Anthony Giddens' [[structuration theory]] contains the key terms agency and agent. The conception of Giddens' agency is a contrary to classi
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