The structural lie : small clues to global things

Author(s)

• Lemert, Charles C.

Bibliographic Information

The structural lie : small clues to global things

Charles Lemert

（Great Barrington books）

Paradigm Publishers, c2011

• : pbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The Structural Lie tackles one of social science's most mysterious problems. How is it possible to derive statements about the grand structures of social life from their effects in the small movements of everyday life? Prominent sociologist Charles Lemert shows how Marx and Freud provide some answers to this question. Marx derived from the commodity his picture of the capitalist system, Freud diagnosed the character of psyches from the details of dreams, slips and jokes. This wonderfully readable and engaging book lays the foundation for a new social science in an age where a microchip can convey a world of information.

Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1 Lies and Life
• Chapter 2 Baudrillard's Death
• Chapter 3 Paul Piccone (1940-2004)
• Chapter 4 Goffman's Enigma
• Chapter 5 Harold Garfinkel
• Chapter 6 Structural Aggravations
• Chapter 7 Betty Friedan and Simone de Beauvoir
• Chapter 8 Said and "Edward"
• Chapter 9 Niebuhr, Derrida, and Death
• Chapter 10 Why Go to Prison?

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BB10645885
• ISBN:
  • 9781594515330
• LCCN: 2010027999
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Boulder, CO
• Pages/Volumes: xiii, 242 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BC21.I6
  • DC22 : 301
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Inference
  • LCSH : Social sciences -- Research
  • LCSH : Social scientists
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA69087757