Society and Its Metaphors

Language, Social Theory and Social Structure

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2003-02-01
Mått:156 x 234 x 11 mm
Vikt:310 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:194
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN:9780826463852

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jose Lopez teaches social theory and sociology at the University of Nottingham. With John Scott he is the author of Social Structure, and he is the co-editor with Garry Potter of After Postmodernism: An Introduction to Critical Realism.

Recensioner i media

"A quite outstanding achievement, Society and its Metaphors engages thoroughly with the implications of poststructuralist strictures on explanatory theorising, and with the heightened reflexivity about language now pervasive among social theorists. Yet the book still remains committed to an explanatory project of social theorising, one more cautious and circumspect, but none the less challenging and ambitious. The indispensable but problematic role of metaphor is the thread which binds together a remarkably integrated work." Ted Benton, University of Essex

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction; 1. Durkheim's Structures: Writing the Emergence of the Social; 2. Marx: Labouring for Structure; 3. Weber's Structures: Deferral, Rationality and Heros of History; 4. Parsons' Structure: the 'Epistemological Obstacle' of Complexity; Conclusion: Reading Texts, Writing Theory: Against the Illusion of Transparency