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Jose Lopez
Society and Its Metaphors [PDF ebook]
Language, Social Theory and Social Structure

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Both classical and contemporary social theorists have created a range of frameworks to formulate and develop concepts of social structure. Focusing on the work of the key theorists, Emile Durkheim, Karl Marx, Max Weber, Talcott Parsons and Louis Althusser, Society and its Metaphors maps the linguistic basis of different theories of social structure.

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Format PDF ● Pages 194 ● ISBN 9781847143730 ● Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing ● Published 2003 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2976350 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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