Social forms/human capacities : essays in authority and difference

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Social forms/human capacities : essays in authority and difference

Philip Corrigan

Routledge, 1990

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Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The author draws on a tradition of thought from sociology, philosophy, structuralism, post-structuralism and literary criticism to explore major on-going problems in everyday life. These include moral regulation, schooling, the capitalist world economy and masculinity.

Table of Contents

  • Part 1 Instead of an introduction: "Doing Mythologies" (1984). Part 2 Essays: the sociology of a subject, dichotomy is contradiction
  • feudal relics or capatilist monuments (1977)
  • addenda - extended review of a Macfarlane (1980)
  • origins of English individualism
  • on moral regulation (1980)
  • towards a celebration of difference (1981)
  • in/forming schooling (1983)
  • the body of intellectuals (1986)
  • social forms/human capacities (1988). Part 3 Interlude: methods in the madness
  • review of P. Willis, learning to labour (1978)
  • review of E.P. Thompson, poverty of theory (1979)
  • review of P. Anderson, arguments with English Marxism
  • review of A. Wilden, the rules are no game and war and peace (1988). Part 4 Starting over: the subject of sociology
  • state formation (1987)
  • masculinity as right (1987).

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  • NCID
    BA10568539
  • ISBN
    • 0415043549
  • LCCN
    89010958
  • Country Code
    uk
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    London ; New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    xiii, 290 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
  • Classification
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