Organising Modernity: Social Ordering and Social Theory

by John Law

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In this important theoretical and empirical statement John Law argues against the purity of post-enlightenment political and social theory, and offers an alternative post-modern sociology. Arguing in favor of a sociology of verbs, he suggests that power, organizations, mind-body dualisms, and macro-micro distinctions may all be understood as the local performance of recursive modes of social ordering. Drawing on a range of theoretical traditions including...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0631185135

ISBN13:9780631185130

Release Date:December 1993

Publisher:Wiley-Blackwell

Length:240 Pages

Weight:0.90 lbs.

Dimensions:0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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