- 194 pages
- English
- PDF
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About this book
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.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: Social Theorizing as a Language-borne Practice
- Chapter One: Durkheim's Structures: Writing the Emergence of the Social
- Chapter Two: Marx: Labouring for Structure
- Chapter Three: Weber's Structures: Deferral, Rationality and the Heroes of History
- Chapter Four: Parsons' Structures: Writing Order
- Chapter Five: Althusser's Structure: The 'Epistemological Obstacle' of Complexity
- Conclusion: Reading Texts, Writing Theory: Against the Illusion of Transparency
- Notes
- References
- Index