Writing the Social Text: Poetics and Politics in Social Science Discourse

In: Communication and Social Order

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS -- PREFACE -- I. Language/Power in the Social Sciences -- 1. Poetics, Politics, and Truth: An Invitation to Rhetorical Analysis -- 2. Text/Context: The Rhetoric of the Social Sciences -- II. Rhetoric and Truth in the Social Sciences -- 3. The Interpretation of Disciplinary Writing -- 4. No Anthro-Apologies, or Der(r)idHing a Discipline -- 5. Textual Form and Social Formation in Evans-Pritchard and Lévi-Strauss -- III. Social Science as Political Discourse -- 6. Communication, Persuasion, and The Establishment of Academic Disciplines: The Case of American Psychology -- 7. Poetics and Politics in Ethnographic Texts: A View from the Colonial Ethnography of Afghanistan -- 8. Listening for the Silences: The Rhetorics of the Research Field -- 9. The Rhetoric of Efficiency: Applied Social Science as Depoliticization -- 10. Fact, Fiction, and Factions: Scandal, Controversy, and "Filemaking" as Social Theory -- IV. Challenges for the Rhetoric of the Human Sciences -- 11. Human Needs and Control: A Foundation for Human Science and Critique -- 12. Narration, Reason, and Community -- 13. From Suspicion to Affirmation: Postmodernism and the Challenges of Rhetorical Analysis -- Index