Merton's "Social Structure and Anomie": Suggestions for Rhetorical Analysis

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Introduction Rhetoric in Research, Networks of Knowledge 1
4. On Sociological Prose 23
5. Writing and Seeing Is There Any Sociology Here? 35
6. Entering Sociology into Public Discourse 50
7. Two Genres of Sociology: A Literary Analysis of The American Occupational Structure and Tally's Corner 62
8. Women Write Sociology: Rhetorical Strategies 97
9. Setting the Scene, Sampling, and Synecdoche 111
10. Doing Science by the Numbers: The Role of Tables and Other Representational Conventions in Scientific Journal Articles 129
11. Merton's "Social Structure and Anomie": Suggestions for Rhetorical Analysis 142
12. How Rhetoric and Sociology Rediscovered Each Other 158
13. References 171
14. List of Contributors 181