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The conceptual practices of power : a feminist sociology of knowledge /

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Beginning with women's experience, the author examines the field's actual practices of reasoning and conceptualization. She argues that standard sociological methods of inquiry make use of ideological practices, transforming the actualities of people's lives into a formalized picture...

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Main Author: Smith, Dorothy E., 1926-
Corporate Author: Alexander Street (Firm)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston : Northeastern University Press, ©1990.
Series:Northeastern series in feminist theory.
Subjects:
Woman (Philosophy)
Feminist theory.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Ideology.
Discourse analysis.
Power (Social sciences)
Femme (Philosophie)
Théorie féministe.
Sociologie de la connaissance.
Idéologie.
Pouvoir (Sciences sociales)
sociology of knowledge.
ideology.
Discourse analysis
Feminist theory
Ideology
Knowledge, Sociology of
Feminismus
Wissenssoziologie
Sociaal-wetenschappelijk onderzoek.
Ideologie.
Machtsverhoudingen.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Women's experience as a radical critique of sociology
  • The ideological practice of sociology
  • The social organization of textual reality
  • Textual realities, ruling, and the suppression of disjuncture
  • The statistics on women and mental illness: the relations of ruling they conceal
  • No one commits suicide: textual analyses of ideological practices
  • Ideological methods of reading and writing texts: a scrutiny of Quentin Bell's account of Virginia Woolf's suicide.