Social science as civic discourse : essays on the invention, legitimation, and uses of social theory / Richard Harvey Brown.
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1989.
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Table of Contents:
- 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 Romaniticism
- 4. Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Levi-Strauss : The Dialectic of Agency and Structure in Theories of the Social
- 5. Metaphor and Knowlege 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.