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The very institutional differentiation of ‘economics’ from ‘history’ and from ‘sociology’ is evidence of the way the historical development of capitalist society creates special languages that render certain kinds of intellectual problems invisible. Divisions of intellectual labor thereby reinforce institutional structures. If those problems were made visible by definitions using critical concepts, they would create opposition to the dominant institutions of the society
The very institutional differentiation of ‘economics’ from ‘history’
and from ‘sociology’ is evidence of the way the historical development
of capitalist society creates special languages that render certain
kinds of intellectual problems invisible. Divisions of intellectual
labor thereby reinforce institutional structures. If those problems
were made visible by definitions using critical concepts, they would
create opposition to the dominant institutions of the society.
Alford and Friedland, Powers of
Theory, p. 27
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Breight, C.C. (1996). State Power. In: Surveillance, Militarism and Drama in the Elizabethan Era. Language, Discourse, Society. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230373020_2
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