Social Science as Civic Discourse
Essays on the Invention, Legitimation, and Uses of Social Theory

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Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
Civic Discourse and the Travails of Social Truth
2. The Positivist Habit of Mind
Metaphysics, Social Theory, and Social Control
3. The Romantic Alternative and Its Limits
A Rhetorical Reformulation of the Debate between Positivism and Romanticism
4. Jean-Paul Sartre and Claude Levi-Strauss
The Dialectic of Agency and Structure in Theories of the Social
5. Metaphor and Knowledge of History I
Organicism and Mechanism in the Study of Social Change
6. Metaphor and Knowledge of History II
Structuralism, Phenomenology, and the Tropes of Linguistic Figuration
7. Bureaucracy as Praxis
Toward a Political Symbology of Formal Organization
8. Social Planning as Symbolic Practice
Toward a Liberating Discourse for Societal Self-Direction
Notes
References
Index
Political Science: Political and Social Theory
Sociology: Theory and Sociology of Knowledge
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