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Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Praise for Semiotic Sociology -- Contents -- About the Author -- List of Figures and Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Towards Semiotic Sociology and Social Theory -- References -- Chapter 2: Synthesis of Semiology, Semiotics and Phenomenological Sociology -- Structuralist Semiology -- Pragmatism -- Phenomenological Sociology -- Conclusion: Implications for Cultural and Social Theory -- References -- Chapter 3: Economy and Society in Semiotic Institutionalism -- Structural-Functionalist Economic Sociology -- Parsons: The AGIL Scheme of the Social System -- Economy and Society in Habermas's Theory of Communicative Action: System and the Lifeworld -- What Is Wrong with Parsons and Habermas? -- The Challenge of Institutionalism -- Institutionalism in Economics -- Pragmatist and Phenomenological Institutionalism -- Towards a Synthesis: Economy and Society in Semiotic Institutionalism -- Semiotic Institutionalism -- Semiotic Interpretation of the System-Lifeworld Scheme -- Conclusion: How Does Semiotic Institutionalism Overcome the Limitations of the Structural-Functionalist Approach? -- References -- Chapter 4: Power and Signification in Neostructuralism -- Conceptions of Power -- Resource Theories: Weber and Parsons -- The Structural Approach: Foucault -- The Neostructuralist Approach -- Understanding the Four Approaches as a Scale -- Applying the Scale of Power Conceptions -- Interpreting Everyday Conversation Neostructuralistically -- Big Case Comparison and Dispositifs in Historical Sociology -- The Need for Less Complex Approaches -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 5: Modernity and the Intersemiotic Condition -- Intersemiosis: Mystery Train and Michael Jackson -- Modernity as Institutional Tendencies -- Culture as Semiosis -- The Postmodernity Debate and Sociological Analysis of Culture.