ABSTRACT How is it that some sociological texts can defy time and lay claim to be classics while others fall into obsolescence? The paper assumes that an adequate answer must include reference to discourse aims, how a text is written and reading effects. A comparison is made between the earlier (pre-1933) writings of Karl Mannheim and the later (post-1933) writings, with the aim of identifying qualities of the former that made them candidates for classic status and explaining why the latter, due to their instrumental aim, could not hope to achieve such status
This article examines a selected body of knowledge concerned with issues of how media texts influenc...
Studies in the rhetoric of science have tended to focus on classic scientific texts and on the histo...
This article proposes to acknowledge the decline, roughly since the 1950s, in the role of literature...
ABSTRACT The role of the classic text in the social sciences has come under fire in recent years. Th...
The role of the classic text in the social sciences has come under fire in recent years. The authori...
"Analyzing long term historical processes is not what social scientists mostly do. Nevertheless ther...
An oxymoron if ever there was one, this term refers to texts (or authors) that have assumed an exalt...
This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contempo...
This thesis is a study of a period of theoretical development within American sociology focusing on ...
After centuries of dominance, literature has not been in a robust health for the last few decades. ...
There exists a strand within Cultural Studies which proclaims the irrelevance of the dead white men ...
Rereading a book is always an uncanny experience in multiple temporalities. If the linguistic turn h...
Literary genres are social institutions constituted by particular traditions of production and recep...
Five years ago, a new three volume édition of Eugen Rosenstock- Huessy (to translate) In the Cross o...
Three categories-founders, classics, canons-have been vitally important in helping to frame sociolog...
This article examines a selected body of knowledge concerned with issues of how media texts influenc...
Studies in the rhetoric of science have tended to focus on classic scientific texts and on the histo...
This article proposes to acknowledge the decline, roughly since the 1950s, in the role of literature...
ABSTRACT The role of the classic text in the social sciences has come under fire in recent years. Th...
The role of the classic text in the social sciences has come under fire in recent years. The authori...
"Analyzing long term historical processes is not what social scientists mostly do. Nevertheless ther...
An oxymoron if ever there was one, this term refers to texts (or authors) that have assumed an exalt...
This book demonstrates that classical sociology is essential to cutting-edge debates in the contempo...
This thesis is a study of a period of theoretical development within American sociology focusing on ...
After centuries of dominance, literature has not been in a robust health for the last few decades. ...
There exists a strand within Cultural Studies which proclaims the irrelevance of the dead white men ...
Rereading a book is always an uncanny experience in multiple temporalities. If the linguistic turn h...
Literary genres are social institutions constituted by particular traditions of production and recep...
Five years ago, a new three volume édition of Eugen Rosenstock- Huessy (to translate) In the Cross o...
Three categories-founders, classics, canons-have been vitally important in helping to frame sociolog...
This article examines a selected body of knowledge concerned with issues of how media texts influenc...
Studies in the rhetoric of science have tended to focus on classic scientific texts and on the histo...
This article proposes to acknowledge the decline, roughly since the 1950s, in the role of literature...