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Review essay

Contemporary social theory and its implications for rhetorical and communication theory

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Pages 467-479 | Published online: 05 Jun 2009
 

Books reviewed

SOCIAL SCIENCE AS CIVIC DISCOURSE: ESSAYS ON THE INVENTION, LEGITIMATION, AND USES OF SOCIAL THEORY. By Richard Harvey Brown. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989. pp. xvii + 227. $29.95.

FRAMEWORKS OF POWER. By Stuart Clegg. London: Sage Publications, 1989. pp. xix + 297. $49.95.

FOUNDATIONS OF SOCIAL THEORY. By James S. Coleman. Cambridge: Belknap/Harvard University Press, 1990. pp. 993. $39.50.

UNRULY PRACTICES: POWER DISCOURSE, AND GENDER IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL THEORY. By Nancy Fraser. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1989. pp. viii + 201. $35.00; paper $14.95.

THE CONSEQUENCES OF MODERNITY. By Anthony Giddens. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1990. pp. 186. $24.95.

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