Which of the theories covered in this module do you think are most relevant to an understanding of contemporary society? Justify your answer

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THEORIES RELEVANT IN UNDERSTANDING OUR SOCIETY

Our society today confronts a major crisis and dilemma and with some setbacks on the political and economic side of the fence . It is not surprising that many emerging critical theories in the social science humanities and philosophy that developed in the 1960s . As part of many theories and strategies to contest such problems , we shall give emphasis on the different theories created by many thinkers . We will start on the different theories of Habermas , Marx , Hegel and some

concepts from feminist critique of social theorizing , liberation sociology structuralism , post-structuralism and postmodernism

Given the negative side of political and economic situation whether in the first or third world , there is a need to confront the problem since it will be a recurring state of depressing circumstances if not prevented and resisted by the whole populace . It is not solely on the leaders to hunt for positive progress but every individual has its own responsibility to find meaningful solutions to the existing problems . To combat the problem is the main concern of this , whether it is an old method or recent ways of understanding the contemporary society is however relevant and applicable to mainstream drawbacks in different countries Habermas and Critical Social Theory

Jurgen Habermas was a a member of the Frankfurt School of thought but was not a contemporary member but through his writings and works , he continued to be a critique and placed out his major differences with Marx writing by means of his work , Towards Reconstructing Historical Materialism . He emphasized that the analysis of Marx on existing crisis of the society is correct but the concept of revolution as a mode of change does not work instead he introduced the concept of crisis in which a modern society is not giving the needs of every human being and that institutions are maneuvering the individuals ADDIN EN .CITE r1143rJurgen Habermas : On Society and PoliticsAugust 10 2007http /r .cas e .edu ngb2 /Authors /Habermas .html (r . Through his work and concept written in the Communicative Action , this is a one type of action that is more of using individual 's way of thinking and language . This type of action addressed the need to communicate , understand and comprehend with one another in to formulate a general plan of action or actions . After several agreement , reasoning and communicative action , change will occur and replaced the concept of revolution as mode of change . Communicative action and reasoning recognizes that linguistic statements or expressions assume background for comprehension and perception . Habermas typifies the process and rules of communication through the following ADDIN EN .CITE Lagdameo2243Federico Josy T LagdameoThe Force of Reason over the Reason of Force : Jurgen Habermas and Critical Social TheoryAugust 10 2007http /external adnu .edu .ph /Gibon /Vol2Nov2-02 /vol2nov2-02-C .asp (Lagdameo

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