Social science as civic discourse : essays on the invention, legitimation, and uses of social theory / Richard Harvey Brown
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- 2186085
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- Author:
- Brown, Richard Harvey
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- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1989
- xvii, 227 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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- 0226076245
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- Acknowledgments
- 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 Romanticism
- 4. Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Levi-Strauss
- The Dialectic of Agency and Structure in Theories of the Social
- 5. Metaphor and Knowledge 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
- Notes
- References
- Index.
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- Includes index.
- Bibliography: p. 187-215.
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