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Bearing Society in Mind: Theories and Politics of the Social Formation
Contributor(s): Chambers, Samuel a. (Author)

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 ISBN: 1783480238     ISBN-13: 9781783480234
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
OUR PRICE: $55.65  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: October 2014
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
- Business & Economics | Economics - Theory
- Social Science | Sociology - Social Theory
Dewey: 301.01
LCCN: 2014021748
Series: Disruptions
Physical Information: 0.68" H x 6.09" W x 8.52" L (0.69 lbs) 240 pages
Features: Index
 
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Political and economic models of society often operate at a level of abstraction so high that the connections between them, and their links to culture, are beyond reach. Bearing Society in Mind challenges these disciplinary boundaries and proposes an alternative framework-the social formation. The theory of social formation demonstrates how the fabric of society is made up of threads that are simultaneously economic, political, and cultural. Drawing on the work of theorists including Marx, Althusser, Butler, Zizek and Rancière, Bearing Society in Mind makes the strongest case possible for the theoretical importance and political necessity of this concept. It simultaneously demonstrates that the social formation proves to be a very particular and peculiar type of "concept"-it is not a reflection or model of the world, but is definitively and concretely bound up with and constitutive of the world.
 
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