2 Intention, Meaning, and Structure in Social Explanation

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Charts x
4. Acknowledgements xi
5. Introduction 1
6. The Nature of Social Consciousness 21
7. Intention, Meaning, and Structure in Social Explanation 49
8. A Structural Idealist Interpretation of Theories of Deviance 81
9. Reconstructing the Past 99
10. The Search for Depth Meaning as the Essence of Late Modernity 131
11. The End of the Search for Depth Meaning as the Essence of Postmodernity 159
12. A Secret History of the Liquid Body 199
13. The Contribution of Structural Idealism to Cultural Critique 223
14. Notes 269
15. Bibliography 289
16. Index 301