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An examination of sociological theory as discourse, in 9 Chpts & author's Preface, which draws upon the ideas of Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida, Claude Levi-Strauss, & others, in an attempt to circumvent paradigmatic strategies & theoretical pluralism. (1) Homocentrism and Sociological Discourse - identifies the characteristics & tasks of discursive analysis, locates the historical & cultural realm of homocentric discourse in the nineteenth century, & defines lexical, semantical, & syntactical approaches to sociology. (2) Axiomatic Explanation: George Homans - describes Homans as a lexical writer who understands theory as explanation, involving the use of deduction, empirical research, & variously ordered propositions. (3) Theory Constructionism: Hubert Blalock - outlines Blalock's approach through model construction, an "identification problem," & auxiliary theory, his historicist position, & his theorist-qua-inventor ideal. (4) Analytic Realism: Talcott Parsons - characterizes Parsons's discourse as both denotative & subjective, & locates his social theory in a lexical system. (5) Symbolic Interactionism: Herbert Blumer - discusses the ascendence of speech over writing in symbolic interactionism, & defines Blumer's semantic understanding of sociology as significant interpretation. (6) Phenomenological Sociology: Schutz/ Berger/Luckmann - reviews the philosophy of Edmund Husserl as a preamble to basing social science on conscious experience rather than belief, & on the objectification of man-the-subject. (7) Ethnomethodology: Aaron Cicourel - defines the practical realm suitable for empirical research in ethnomethodology, & identifies basic themes in Cicourel's work: the centrality of language in research, the indexical quality of sociological language, & dependence upon Alfred Schutz's reflexive notions. (8) Critical Theory: Jurgen Habermas - describes the moral quality of syntactical discourse, and the emphasis upon the application of knowledge in Habermas's theory. (9) Homocentric Sociology in the Twilight - observes that while lexical, syntactical, & semantic sociology are homocentrist, their significant attention to language heralds a scientific relativism. Chpt Note, References.