Concept information
Preferred term
critical theory
Definition
- CRITICAL THEORY GENERALLY refers to the social theory with Marxist roots, that questions tradition and the status quo, explores and analyzes the origins of social inequality in capitalist societies and advocate radical social change. In criminology, it is an approach to the study of crime, which locates the principal sources of crime in the structure of class inequality in society.Drawing particularly on the work of Karl Marx and his collaborator Friedrich Engels, a primary tenet of critical theory of crime is that capitalism and economic inequality produce crimes. [Source: Encyclopedia of White-Collar & Corporate Crime; Critical Theory]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- agonism
- animality
- anticapitalism
- anti-foundationalism
- becoming (critical theory)
- communicative action
- conflict
- conflict perspective
- cosmopolitics
- counter-enlightenment
- critical realism
- critique
- deconstruction
- desire
- deterritorialization
- dialectics
- difference theories
- discourse
- disenchantment
- emancipation
- essentialism
- event (philosophy)
- exception
- existentialism
- face (sociology)
- genealogy
- hegemony
- historicism
- hybridity
- identity (sociology)
- ideology (sociology)
- immanence
- interpretive theory
- liberation theology
- marxism
- metapolitics
- multiplicity
- negative dialectics
- negativity
- nihilism
- ontology
- performativity
- pessimism
- phenomenology
- postcolonialism
- post-marxism
- postmodernism
- poststructuralism
- reflexivity
- repressive tolerance
- romanticism
- singularity
- socio-economic relations
- subjectivation
- temporality
- the frankfurt school
- the imaginary
- the other
- the symbolic (critical theory)
- totality
- utopianism
- virtual
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/critical_theory
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