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Dividing Public and Private: Law, Politics, and Social Theory
Aims to make the public/private division central to social theory and inquiry. This book claims that the distinctions between private and public realms of experience are fundamental for shaping society's everyday interactions, yet the distinction remains to be stressed by sociologists.
Author(s) | By Gerald Turkel. |
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Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing Plc |
Format | Hardback |
Pages | 272 |
Published in | United States |
Published | 30 Oct 1992 |
Availability | POD |
Aims to make the public/private division central to social theory and inquiry. This book claims that the distinctions between private and public realms of experience are fundamental for shaping society's everyday interactions, yet the distinction remains to be stressed by sociologists.
Preface Introduction Karl Marx Emancipation and the Public/Private Division A Tale of Two Publics Emile Durkheim Constructing the Private Sphere through Corporate Holism Suicide, The Corporate Individual, and Gender Dividing Public and Private: Co
GERALD TURKEL is Professor of Sociology at the University of Delaware. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Social Theory and Sociology of Law for the past seventeen years, and has published widely.