Title: Social science as civic discourse : essays on the invention, legitimation, and uses of social theory /
Authors: Brown, Richard Harvey.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press,
Year: 1989
Subjects: Social sciences Philosophy; Language and languages Philosophy; Social change.; Social sciences and history.
Contents: 1. Introduction : Civic Discourse and the Travails of Social Truth -- 2. The Positivist Habit of Mind : Metaphysics, Social Theory, and Social Control -- 3. The Romantic Alternative and Its Limits : A Rhetorical Reformulation of the Debate between Positivism and Romaniticism -- 4. Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Levi-Strauss : The Dialectic of Agency and Structure in Theories of the Social -- 5. Metaphor and Knowlege of History I : Organicism and Mechanism in the Study of Social Change -- 6. Metaphor and Knowledge of History II : Structuralism, Phenomenology, and the Tropes of Linguistic Figuration -- 7. Bureaucracy as Praxis : Toward a Political Symbology of Formal Organization -- 8. Social Planning as Symbolic Practice : Toward a Liberating Discourse for Societal Self-Direction.