Society and its metaphors
Subtitle: language, social theory and social structure
By: José López.
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 186
Subjects: Social structure.; Social sciences -- Philosophy.; Sociolinguistics.
Description: "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."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Social theorizing as a language-borne practice; title: Durkheim's structures: writing the emergence of the social; title: Marx: labouring for structure; title: Weber's structures: deferral, rationality, and the heroes of history; title: Parsons' structures: writing order; title: Althusser's structure: the 'epistomological obstacle' of complexity; title: Reading texts, writing theory: against the illusion of transparency.