Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and RealityUniversity of Chicago Press, 1987 - 252 páginas Brown makes elegant use of sociological theory and of insights from language philosophy, literary criticism, and rhetoric to articulate a new theory of the human sciences, using the powerful metaphor of society as text. |
Contenido
Discourse and Polity Sociolinguistics Language Communities and the Mobilization of LowIncome Groups | 5 |
Personal Identity and Political Economy Western Grammars of the Self in Historical Perspective | 28 |
Reason as Rhetorical On Relations between Epistemology Discourse and Practice | 64 |
Theories of Rhetoric and the Rhetoric of Theories Emile Durkheim and the Political Symbology of Sociological Truth | 80 |
Rhetoric and the Science of History The Debate between Evolutionism and Empiricism as a Conflict of Metaphors | 97 |
Social Reality as Narrative Text Interactions Institutions and Polities as Language | 118 |
Narrative Fiction as Social Text Literature Literary Theory and the Self as SocialSymbolic Act | 143 |
Literary Form and Sociological Theory Dialectical Irony as Emancipatory Discourse | 172 |
Notes | 193 |
References | 219 |
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Términos y frases comunes
abstract action alienation analysis assumptions awareness become behavior Bernstein bureaucratic cognitive conception conduct consciousness construction contemporary context create critical culture derealized Descartes dialectical irony discourse dominant Durkheim Durkheimian economic elaborated empiricists epistemological evolutionism evolutionists example experience expressed false consciousness fiction freedom function Goffman grammar groups Hegel hermeneutic historical human ical identity ideology individual institutions interpretation ironic ironist irony Kenneth Burke knowledge Labov language linguistic literal literary logic lower-class Marx meaning metaphor middle-class mode modern moral narrative nature norms objective organization paradigm peak experiences persons perspective philosophy political positivist possible practice processes production rationality reality reason relations rhetorical roles romantic Schlegel scientific semiotics sense social order social text society sociolinguistics sociology sociology of knowledge speech structure studies symbolic teleology telos textual theory things thought tion total institutions tradition truth University Press Walter Benjamin York
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