Society as Text
Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4376083 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Clem Robyns |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 668 |
| Publication date | 1988-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | REVIEW |
| Review of | Society as text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality, Richard Harvey Brown, 1987 |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/1772738 |
| OpenAlex | W2024135813 |
| Language | EN |
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
Aesthetics · Art · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Rhetoric · Sociology · Discourse Analysis in Language Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy
Critical terrorism studies
From Process to Politics
Languaging, human projects, selves, and societies of selves
The story of us
Towards a Peopled Ethnography
Creative Nonfiction in Social Science
The function of form in newspapers' political conflict coverage
Stardom, celebrity and the para-confession
The Academization of Physical Education Teacher Training a Discourse Analysis Case Study
Selections of reality
In the shadow of the deconstructed metanarratives
The discursive construction of knowledge
History and sociology
They All Were Passing
Performing the Text
Social science and the poetics of public truth
Writing about teachers
Reason, Politics, and the Politics of Truth
Autonomy and Credibility
Rhetoric, Textuality, and the Postmodern Turn in Sociological Theory
Reflection, Doubt, and the Place of Rhetoric in Postmodern Social Theory
Metatheory, Metamethod, Meta-Data-Analysis
The Revenge of the Humanities
A Formalization of Postmodern Theory
Perceptual Control and Social Power
Money flows like mercury
Critical rhetoric
Evolução Do Positivismo Como Filosofia Do Direito Da Sociedade Complexa - Doi
Introduction
The Professionalization of Tomorrow's Teachers
Herbert Blumer and the Life History Tradition
Staying in the Empirical World
The Enduring Dialogue of Conflict and Order in a Changing World
A Narrative Search for Respect
Husserl, Schutz, ?Paul? and me
Criticism and conversational texts
A Historical Ethnography in the Making
Duas metáforas históricas sobre o problema do sentido da ação
Secular Immortality and the American Ideology of Affluence
Versifying Your Reading List
Rescuing civic learning
Reparative praxis
Presidential Address On The Sociological Imagination Revisited
Modern Science
The Social Construction of Style
Expanding The Literary Horizon
Living signs in a rigidly patterned world
Modern Science and Its Critics
Knowledge Claims in Rhetorical Criticism
Institutional Plausibility Alignment as Rhetorical Exercise
The second selfin a third world immigrant community
Culture, Identity and Hegemony
Formalism in the social sciences, rhetorically speaking
How Themes in Literature Can Inform Sociological Theory, Research, and Teaching
Derrida for Sociology? A Comment on Fuchs and Ward
Defending Multiculturalism
Drinking stories as a narrative genre
China’s capitalist transformation
Ethnographic Contextualization of Freire's Discourse
From a Politics of Transgression Toward an Ethics of Reflexivity
Social Anthropology of Technology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |