Society and its metaphors : language, social theory and social structure / / Jose Lopez
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| Autore: |
Lopez Jose <1966->
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| Titolo: |
Society and its metaphors : language, social theory and social structure / / Jose Lopez
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| Pubblicazione: | New York ; ; London, : Continuum, 2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (193 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 301/.01 |
| Soggetto topico: | Social structure |
| Social sciences - Philosophy | |
| Sociolinguistics | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Society and its metaphors |
| ISBN: | 1-281-29880-8 |
| 9786611298807 | |
| 1-84714-373-3 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910817742303321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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