Writing the Social : : Critique, Theory, and Investigations / / Dorothy E. Smith.

This collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a long-awaited treasure by one of the world's foremost social thinkers. In it, Smith turns her wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, philosophy, and popular culture, at...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2020]
©1999
Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • Part One: Critique
  • 2. Contradictions for Feminist Social Scientists
  • 3. Feminist Reflections on Political Economy
  • 4. Sociological Theory: Methods of Writing Patriarchy into Feminist Texts
  • Part Two: Theory
  • 5. The Ruling Relations
  • 6. Telling the Truth after Postmodernism
  • Part Three: Investigations
  • 7. Exploring the Social Relations of Discourse: Sociological Theory and the Dialogic of Sociology
  • 8. The Standard North American Family: SNAF as an Ideological Code
  • 9. 'Politically Correct': An Organizer of Public Discourse
  • 10. Texts and Repression: Hazards for Feminists in the Academy
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Name Index
  • Subject Index