Organising Modernity: Social Ordering and Social Theory

by John Law

Book Overview

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"