S/he might look at the culture of the society, including standards of behavior, etiquette, the relations between opposing groups (e.g., parents and children, the rich and the poor, men and women, religious beliefs, taboos, and moral values.)

The critic might also look at the economy and politics of the society, including its system

This theory combines philosophy, sociology, and economic theory to assert that society is fundamentally created in relation to its economic structure.

A member of the middle class with materialist and conventional values.

The members of the working class.

It is a social, political, and economic theory that came to prominence in the second half of the nineteenth century.

The central idea of __ is that society is structured around the economic activity of a society.

In any society, there is an economic base based on which other aspects of life (the superstructure) are generated.

__ literary theory is a type of literary analysis that examines works of literature from a Marxist point of view.

It is sometimes described as bringing a literary approach to philosophy, a way of reading philosophical texts like literature, using methods of literary analysis.

It is a critical approach that focuses on the form of a text instead of its content and its relationship to the outside world.

It was a broader philosophy and critical approach that emerged in the early 20th century.

In literary theory, __ focused on the structural and linguistic aspects of a text rather than what it represented.

It is a system in which things or people are organized into different levels based on their status or importance.

It is a branch of linguistics that treats language as a system of interconnected units.

It is the study of how meaning is generated during the process of communication.

A __ is the basic unit of communication that refers to anything (word, image, or symbol) that carries a meaning

In __, the sign is made of a 'signifier' and a 'signified'.

A __ is a verbal or graphic symbol or code that represents an idea or an object. For example, a word or an image.

It is the object or concept It tries to represent

It is the idea that speech or sound is superior to the written word.

It (derived from the Greek word 'logos' which means word or reason) refers to the inclination in Western thought to privilege the word over what it stands for.

It is a new word created by Derrida to describe the tendency to privilege masculinity in the understanding of society and meaning.

It is a branch of physics that studies the nature of reality and the relationship between different aspects of life, such as knowledge, perception, identity, existence, and time.

It is a critical theory and philosophical approach proposed by the French philosopher Jacques Derrida.

The key argument in __ is that meaning is unreliable as the language that communicates meaning is itself unreliable.

It is impossible to determine fixed, underlying meanings in a text. Therefore, all texts are open to multiple interpretations.

Central to the theory of __ is Derrida's idea of différance and his criticism of binary oppositions.