Society and Its Metaphors: Language, Social Theory and Social StructureA&C Black, 2003 M02 1 - 194 pages Both classical and contemporary social theorists have created a range of frameworks to formulate and develop concepts of social structure. Focusing on the work of the key theorists, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Louis Althusser, Society and its Metaphors maps the linguistic basis of different theories of social structure. |
Contents
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Durkheims Structures Writing the Emergence of the Social | 20 |
Marx Labouring for Structure | 43 |
Webers Structures Deferral Rationality and the Heroes of History | 67 |
Parsons Structures Writing Order | 90 |
Althussers Structure The Epistemological Obstacle of Complexity | 115 |
Reading Texts Writing Theory Against the Illusion of Transparency | 138 |
Notes | 153 |
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