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Society and its metaphors : language, social theory and social structure /

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 linguist...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: López, José, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; New York : Continuum, 2003.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Social theorizing as a language-borne practice
  • Durkheim's structures: writing the emergence of the social
  • Marx: labouring for structure
  • Weber's structures: deferral, rationality, and the heroes of history
  • Parsons' structures: writing order
  • Althusser's structure: the 'epistomological obstacle' of complexity
  • Reading texts, writing theory: against the illusion of transparency.