Systems of Discourse: Structures and Semiotics in the Social Sciences
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
Systems of Discourse: Structures and Semiotics in the Social Sciences
By (Author) George V. Zito
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Praeger Publishers Inc
7th November 1984
United States
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
300.141
Physical Properties
Hardback
158
Reviews
The most readable and informative work on structuralism to date. Zito begins with a clever, abstract discussion of various kinds of systems and then leads the reader gently into the particular tenets of structuralism as a theory and a method. He covers all of the major theorists ... illuminating differences among them and from other social-scientific paradigms. Zito has a knack for anticipating everything scholars always wanted to know about the usefulness of structuralism in social science. A major portion of the text deals with understanding strcuturalism's emphasis on language as well as its provocative notion of causality. This book ... will be immensely helpful to advanced students who are interested in understanding the role this paradigm plays in broadening our interpretation of social phenomena. University-level collections.-Choice
"The most readable and informative work on structuralism to date. Zito begins with a clever, abstract discussion of various kinds of systems and then leads the reader gently into the particular tenets of structuralism as a theory and a method. He covers all of the major theorists ... illuminating differences among them and from other social-scientific paradigms. Zito has a knack for anticipating everything scholars always wanted to know about the usefulness of structuralism in social science. A major portion of the text deals with understanding strcuturalism's emphasis on language as well as its provocative notion of causality. This book ... will be immensely helpful to advanced students who are interested in understanding the role this paradigm plays in broadening our interpretation of social phenomena. University-level collections."-Choice
Author Bio
GEORGE V. ZITO is Associate Professor of Sociology at Syracuse University./e He is the author of seven books, including Systems of Discourse (Greenwood, 1984) and The Sociology of Shakespeare (1991).
