Gordon C Chang
Biographic Data
| ID | 250230 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gordon C Chang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gordon C |
| FAMILY NAME | Chang |
| SIGNATURE | CHANG G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Illinois University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Codification and power in postmodern, post-normal times
This essay develops a perspective on power by linking Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra to theories of reality construction through a model of codification. Drawing on historical materials from Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times and contemporary cases, it shows how allusion, illusion, and delusion operate through processual social constructions. Allusive codification draws power from authority, illusive codifi…
Revolution and Witchcraft
This book introduces a basic set of tools and frameworks for readers to comprehend the deep principles behind the operation of whole idea systems. This is an open access book.
Revolution and Witchcraft
Discourse in a religious mode
This study of the politics of representation illustrates the Bush Administration’s use of a religious mode of representation to make sense of the 9/11 events, to legitimize military actions against the Taliban, Afghanistan, and terrorism in general. The religious mode of representation is enabled by the construction and application of what we call the “War on Terrorism script,” which is grounded in the institution of “American civil religion.” We…
Authentic Identities in Late-Modern Globalized Social Scenes
Commodity
Commodities are objects or products that are utilized by humans for exchange purposes. Although the phrase is most often associated with the context of market exchange, exchange of commodities predated the development of the so‐called free market economy. The idea of commodity carries special theoretical significance in Karl Marx's body of work, in which “fetishism of the commodities” plays an important role during the historical stage of capital…
The 47 Percent
We analyze trends and variations in state-level expenditure growth for Medicaid, SSI, SNAP, and TANF. We explore three areas of interest: (1) How program structure impacts growth; (2) How programs responded to the 2008/2009 recession; and (3) How state preference for limited government, measured by Right- To-Work (RTW) status and political affiliation, impacts program expenditure growth. Findings show that program structure impacts expenditure gr…
Evidencing international threat
By studying the discourse utilized by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) and its chief officers during 2003–2004, we show the methods by which U.S. government-appointed experts helped to affirm the existence of an Iraqi threat even in the absence of physical evidence for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) stockpiles or active weapons programs found in Iraq during U.S. ground search. Their data collection and interpretation work illuminates the principle …
The “War on Terror” Narrative
Why we must attack Iraq
This three-part article describes the reasoning practices and argumentation system deployed by the Bush administration to build a case for the war on Iraq initiated in 2003. First, it analyzes the elaborate description of Saddam Hussein's evil character presented by the Bush administration and the political implications that followed from it. Then, it analyzes the methods by which these understandings were utilized to argue that Saddam Hussein's …
Spectacular Colleges and Spectacular Rankings
This article applies Guy Debord's theory of the spectacle to the institutional field of contemporary American higher education. Our case study examines the US News & World Report system of college rankings, which has come to acquire a powerful role in determining exchange values among colleges and universities. Based on a document analysis of 12 issues of the USN, we present three processes by which it accomplishes the construction of the ranking…
Why we must attack Iraq
This three-part article describes the reasoning practices and argumentation system deployed by the Bush administration to build a case for the war on Iraq initiated in 2003. First, it analyzes the elaborate description of Saddam Hussein's evil character presented by the Bush administration and the political implications that followed from it. Then, it analyzes the methods by which these understandings were utilized to argue that Saddam Hussein's …
Spectacular Colleges and Spectacular Rankings
This article applies Guy Debord's theory of the spectacle to the institutional field of contemporary American higher education. Our case study examines the US News & World Report system of college rankings, which has come to acquire a powerful role in determining exchange values among colleges and universities. Based on a document analysis of 12 issues of the USN, we present three processes by which it accomplishes the construction of the ranking…
Spectacular Colleges and Spectacular Rankings
This article applies Guy Debord's theory of the spectacle to the institutional field of contemporary American higher education. Our case study examines the US News & World Report system of college rankings, which has come to acquire a powerful role in determining exchange values among colleges and universities. Based on a document analysis of 12 issues of the USN, we present three processes by which it accomplishes the construction of the ranking…
Why we must attack Iraq
This three-part article describes the reasoning practices and argumentation system deployed by the Bush administration to build a case for the war on Iraq initiated in 2003. First, it analyzes the elaborate description of Saddam Hussein's evil character presented by the Bush administration and the political implications that followed from it. Then, it analyzes the methods by which these understandings were utilized to argue that Saddam Hussein's …
The “War on Terror” Narrative
Evidencing international threat
By studying the discourse utilized by the Iraq Survey Group (ISG) and its chief officers during 2003–2004, we show the methods by which U.S. government-appointed experts helped to affirm the existence of an Iraqi threat even in the absence of physical evidence for weapons of mass destruction (WMD) stockpiles or active weapons programs found in Iraq during U.S. ground search. Their data collection and interpretation work illuminates the principle …
The 47 Percent
We analyze trends and variations in state-level expenditure growth for Medicaid, SSI, SNAP, and TANF. We explore three areas of interest: (1) How program structure impacts growth; (2) How programs responded to the 2008/2009 recession; and (3) How state preference for limited government, measured by Right- To-Work (RTW) status and political affiliation, impacts program expenditure growth. Findings show that program structure impacts expenditure gr…
Commodity
Commodities are objects or products that are utilized by humans for exchange purposes. Although the phrase is most often associated with the context of market exchange, exchange of commodities predated the development of the so‐called free market economy. The idea of commodity carries special theoretical significance in Karl Marx's body of work, in which “fetishism of the commodities” plays an important role during the historical stage of capital…
Discourse in a religious mode
This study of the politics of representation illustrates the Bush Administration’s use of a religious mode of representation to make sense of the 9/11 events, to legitimize military actions against the Taliban, Afghanistan, and terrorism in general. The religious mode of representation is enabled by the construction and application of what we call the “War on Terrorism script,” which is grounded in the institution of “American civil religion.” We…
Authentic Identities in Late-Modern Globalized Social Scenes
Revolution and Witchcraft
This book introduces a basic set of tools and frameworks for readers to comprehend the deep principles behind the operation of whole idea systems. This is an open access book.
Revolution and Witchcraft
Codification and power in postmodern, post-normal times
This essay develops a perspective on power by linking Jean Baudrillard’s theory of simulacra to theories of reality construction through a model of codification. Drawing on historical materials from Revolution and Witchcraft: The Code of Ideology in Unsettled Times and contemporary cases, it shows how allusion, illusion, and delusion operate through processual social constructions. Allusive codification draws power from authority, illusive codifi…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Argumentation theory (2 works)