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Writing the social : critique, theory, and investigations / Dorothy E. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Toronto, Ont. : University of Toronto Press, ©1999.Description: 1 online resource (307 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781442683747
  • 1442683740
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing the social.DDC classification:
  • 301/.01
LOC classification:
  • HM24 .S542 1998eb
Other classification:
  • 71.04
Online resources:
Contents:
1. Introduction -- pt. I. Critique. 2. Contradictions for Feminist Social Scientists. 3. Feminist Reflections on Political Economy. 4. Sociological Theory: Methods of Writing Patriarchy into Feminist Texts -- pt. II. Theory. 5. The Ruling Relations. 6. Telling the Truth after Postmodernism -- pt. III. 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.
Review: "This collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a 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 the same time redefining her own sociological and feminist theory and practice."--Jacket.
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

"This collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a 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 the same time redefining her own sociological and feminist theory and practice."--Jacket.

1. Introduction -- pt. I. Critique. 2. Contradictions for Feminist Social Scientists. 3. Feminist Reflections on Political Economy. 4. Sociological Theory: Methods of Writing Patriarchy into Feminist Texts -- pt. II. Theory. 5. The Ruling Relations. 6. Telling the Truth after Postmodernism -- pt. III. 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.

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