Quiz Crotty Chapter 9

1. Fill in the blank.

Modernism, then, in the sense of modernity and modernization, evince great faith
in the ability of _____________ to discover absolute forms of knowledge.

2. Complete the sentence.

Where modernism purports to base itself on generalized, indubitable truths about
the way things really are, postmodernism
____________________________________.

3. Who developed concepts of “discursive formations” and “the archaeology of

knowledge”?

4. signifier is ____________, signified is _____________ and the linguistic sign is

arbitrary according to _________________________

5. Who wrote about wrestling, stripteases, and the black soldier saluting the French
Flag?

6. Name Milners five characteristics of structuralism.

7. Explain the difference between post-structuralism and post-modernism.

8. Which postmodern theorist was concerned with difference?