Writing the Social: Critique, Theory, and Investigations

by Dorothy E. Smith

This collection of essays, written by Dorothy Smith over the past eight years, is a long-awaited treasure by one of the world's foremost social thinkers. In it, Smith turns her wit and common sense on the prevailing discourses of sociology, political economy, philosophy, and popular culture, at the same time developing her own sociological and feminist practice in unexpected and remarkable directions. Shedding the idiom of the sociologist, Smith inquires...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0802081355
• ISBN13: 9780802081353
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher