Society and its metaphors : language, social theory and social structure /
Jos�e Lï¿
- New York : L Continuum, 2003.
- 186 p. ;
Includes bibliographical references and
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 transpa