TY - BOOK AU - Brown,Richard Harvey TI - Writing the social text: poetics and politics in social science discourse T2 - Communication and social order SN - 0202303861 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - H61 .W86 1991 U1 - 300/.1 20 PY - 1992/// CY - New York PB - A. de Gruyter KW - Discourse analysis KW - Local KW - Rhetoric KW - Humanities KW - Methodology KW - Social sciences N1 - Based on two conferences held at the University of Maryland in 1989; Includes bibliographical references and index; Poetics, politics, and truth : an invitation to rhetorical analysis / Richard Harvey Brown -- Text/context : the rhetoric of the social sciences / Julie Thompson Klein -- The interpretation of disciplinary writing / Charles Bazerman -- No anthro-apologies, or der(r)iding a discipline / Renée Denūvo -- Textual form and social formation in Evans-Pritchard and Levi-Strauss / Michael Herzfeld -- Communication, persuasion, and the establishment of academic disciplines : the case of American psychology / David E. Leary -- Poetics and politics in ethnographic texts : a view from the colonial ethnography of Afghanistan / Jon W. Anderson -- Listening for the silences : the rhetorics of the research field / Joseph R. Gusfield -- The rhetoric efficiency : applied social science as depoliticization / Hilkka Summa -- Fact, fiction, and factions : scandal, controversy, and "filemaking" as social theory / Carl Milofsky -- Human needs and control : a foundation for human science and critique / Paul Sites -- Narration, reason, and community / Walter R. Fisher -- From suspicion to affirmation : post-modernism and the challenges of ER -