Durkheim's ghosts : cultural logics and social things / Charles Lemert.
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- 301.092
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
[PART 1: Cultural logics] Frantz Fanon and the living ghosts of capitalism's world-system -- Durkheim's ghosts in the culture of sociologies -- Levi-Strauss and the sad tropics of modern cultures -- What is culture? Amid the flowers, seeds or weeds? -- Paris 1907 and why the sociological imagination is always unstable -- Sociological theory and the relativistic paradigm -- Ferdinand de Saussure and why the social contract is a cultural arbitrary -- Literary politics and the champ of French sociology.
[PART 2: Durkheim's ghosts] Marcel Mauss and Durkheim and why the ghosts of social differences are ubiquitous -- Durkheim's woman and the Jew as the pluperfect past of the good society -- Jacques Derrida and why global structures had to die when they did -- The uses of the French structuralisms -- Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari and why structures haunt instruments and measures -- Structures, instruments, and reading in social and cultural research (with Willard A. Neilsen, Jr.) -- Roland Barthes and the phantasmagorias of social things -- Language, structure, and measurement as a semiotic of differences.
[PART 3: Culture as the ghost of primitive transgressions] Michel Foucault and why analytic categories are queer -- Pierre Bourdieu's aesthetic critique of sociological judgment -- Simone de Beauvoir and why culture is a semiotics of the other -- Power-knowledge, discourse, and transgression (with Garth Gillan) -- Fernand Braudel and Immanuel Wallerstein and why globalization is a social geography of inequalities -- The system of future worlds -- Postscript: What culture is not.
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