Brown, R(ichard) H(arvey)

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BROWN, R(ichard) H(arvey)

BROWN, R(ichard) H(arvey). American, b. 1940. Genres: Communications/Media, Humanities, Philosophy, Politics/Government, Social commentary, Social sciences, Sociology, Speech/Rhetoric, Third World. Career: University of Maryland, College Park, professor of sociology, 1975-. Publications: A Poetic for Sociology, 1977; (with S.M. Lyman) Structure, Consciousness and History, 1978; Society as Text, 1987; Social Science as Civic Discourse, 1989; Writing the Social Text, 1992; Toward a Democratic Science, 1998; America in Transit, 2002. EDITOR: Migration and Modernization, 1989; Traditions and Transformations, 1989; Culture, Politics, and Economic Growth, 1994; Postmodern Representations, 1995; The Politics of Selfhood, 2002. Died 2003.

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