Agger's Multiculturalism Analysis

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Topic 1: An Analysis of the Theme of Agger’s Multiculturalism and the Concept of Feminism This sociological study will define the definition of “multiculturalism” in terms of the Americanized version of “culture” put forth by Ben Agger. Agger’s perception of multiculturalism is part of the French system of post modernism, which developed in the dynamic philosophies of Lyotard, Foucault, Derrida, and Baudrillard. In this manner, Agger, defines the underlying postmodernism of French philosophy to be a definition of an Americanized ideology that sought to expand the study of class, race, and gender. More so, Derrida (1970) defines the diversity of social meaning in society, which goes beyond the generalization of Marxism and positivistic thought: “The total body of myth belonging to a given community is comparable to its speech” (p.6 of file--no page numbers shown). This definition provides an acute and multivariate understanding of the dynamics of Agger’s version of multiculturalism in terms of the postmodern French movements of the mid-20th century: …show more content…

These “individualistic” assumptions of multicultural values are not necessarily “liberal”, however, but they do define a broader evaluation of class, race, and gender through social mediums that expand upon capitalistic and liberal ideology as source of theoretical criticisms of modern society (Foucault, 1984, p.41). More so, postmodern theorists, such as Foucault, as a means of understanding the limitations of Marxist criticism: ‘Foucault rejects the idea that there is a single master principle of universal domination that needs to be addressed by a single theoretical logic, such as Marxism” (Agger, 2013, p.63). In this manner, multiculturalism is not defined by any single philosophy as a postmodern definition of social analysis or

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