Includes bibliographical references and index.

Social theorizing as a language-borne practice -- Durkheim's structures: writing the emergence of the social -- Marx: labouring for structure -- Weber's structures: deferral, rationality, and the heroes of history -- Parsons' structures: writing order -- Althusser's structure: the 'epistomological obstacle' of complexity -- Reading texts, writing theory: against the illusion of transparency.

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