Background
Richard Harvey Brown was born on March 12, 1940, in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Samuel Robert and Sylvia Brown.
University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
The University of California, Berkeley where Richard Brown received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States
Columbia University where Richard Brown received his Master of Arts degree.
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
The University of California, San Diego where Richard Brown received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
University of California, Berkeley, CA, United States
The University of California, Berkeley where Richard Brown received his Bachelor of Arts degree.
Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, United States
Columbia University where Richard Brown received his Master of Arts degree.
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, CA 92093, United States
The University of California, San Diego where Richard Brown received his Doctor of Philosophy degree.
(For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scienti...)
For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scientists have felt forced to choose between imitating science's empirical methodology and impersonating a romantic notion of art, the methods of which are seen as primarily a matter of intuition, interpretation, and opinion. Developing the idea of a "cognitive aesthetic," Brown shows how both science and art - as well as the human studies that stand between them - depend on metaphoric thinking as their "logic of discovery" and may be assessed in terms of such aesthetic criteria of adequacy as economy, elegance, originality, scope, congruence, and form.
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1977
(In Society as Text, Brown makes elegant use of sociologic...)
In Society as Text, Brown makes elegant use of sociological theory and of insights from language philosophy, literary criticism, and rhetoric to articulate a new theory of the human sciences, using the powerful metaphor of society as text.
https://www.amazon.com/Society-Text-Essays-Rhetoric-Reality/dp/0226076172
1987
(Richard Harvey Brown's pioneering explorations in the phi...)
Richard Harvey Brown's pioneering explorations in the philosophy of social science and the theory of rhetoric reach a culmination in Social Science as Civic Discourse. In his earlier works, he argued for a logic of discovery and explanation in social science by showing that science and art both depend on metaphoric thinking, and he has applied that logic to society as a narrative text in which significant action by moral agents is possible. This new work is at once a philosophical critique of social theory and a social-theoretical critique of politics.
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1989
(In this important book, a leading authority in the field ...)
In this important book, a leading authority in the field of social theory and communication shows how scientific practice is a rhetorical and narrative activity, a story well told. Richard Harvey Brown develops the idea of science as narration casts various scientific disciplines as literary genres, and argues that expert knowledge of any kind is a form of power. He then explains how a narrative view of science can help integrate science within a democratic civic discourse.
https://www.amazon.com/Toward-Democratic-Science-Scientific-Communication/dp/0300067070
1998
(The women's movement, lobbies for the elderly, pro-choice...)
The women's movement, lobbies for the elderly, pro-choice and pro-life movements, AIDS research and education, pedophilia and repressed memory, global sports spectacles, organ donor networks, campaigns for safe sex, chastity, or preventive medicine - all are aspects of the contemporary politics of bodies and identities touched on in this book. Three broad themes run through the collection: how the body is constructed in various ways for different purposes, how the electronic media and its uses shape selves and sensualities and contribute to civic discourse, and how global capitalism acts as a direct force in these processes. By taking a distinctly cross-cultural and comparative approach, this volume explores more fully than ever the political, economic, institutional, and cultural settings of corporeality, identity, and representation.
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2002
(The United States is in transit from an industrial to a p...)
The United States is in transit from an industrial to a postindustrial society, from a modern to postmodern culture, and from a national to a global economy. In this book, Richard Harvey Brown asks how we can distinguish the uniquely American elements of these changes from more global influences. His answer focuses on the ways in which economic imperatives give shape to the shifting experience of being American.
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2005
Richard Harvey Brown was born on March 12, 1940, in New York City, New York, United States. He was the son of Samuel Robert and Sylvia Brown.
Richard Brown did his undergraduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1961 before receiving a Master of Arts degree in sociology from Columbia University in 1965 and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in sociology from the University of California, San Diego in 1973.
Richard Brown, after graduation from the university, traveled to Central and South America as a local project coordinator for the Community Development Foundation. Then he moved to New York where his early work included serving as an assistant commissioner to former New York City mayor John Lindsay, for whom he worked on anti-poverty issues. Brown first taught as an instructor in sociology at California State University from 1971 to 1972. The next year he taught sociology at the University of California, San Diego.
Then he joined the faculty at the University of Maryland in 1975 where he later became chair of the sociology department. Brown studied such issues as the origins of modernity versus the characteristics of post-modernity, the effects of globalization on human identity, and the role of linguistic metaphor on the origins of ideas. During his teaching career, he was also a guest professor at universities in China, Canada, Colombia, Peru.
He was the author of books on sociology, including A Poetic for Sociology: Toward a Logic of Discovery for the Human Sciences (1977), Society as Text: Essays on Rhetoric, Reason, and Reality (1987), and Toward a Democratic Science: Scientific Narration and Civic Communication (1998). The theme throughout the books centered on using metaphor, narrative, irony, and other written compositions as tools to construct images of a society and its political and moral actions. He was also the editor or co-editor of a dozen other sociology books, including The Politics of Selfhood (2002).
In the last ten years of his life, Brown also wrote and lectured on globalization. His research described the effects of globalization in reshaping individual identities. He also wrote about the possibility of democratic political action in emerging transnational communities.
Richard Brown is remembered as an outstanding educator known as a professor of sociology at the University of Maryland, College Park. He was listed as a noteworthy educator by Marquis Who's Who. As a gifted author, in 2003, Brown was honored when an international symposium concerning his work was held.
(The women's movement, lobbies for the elderly, pro-choice...)
2002(For too long, argues Richard Harvey Brown, social scienti...)
1977(In Society as Text, Brown makes elegant use of sociologic...)
1987(In this important book, a leading authority in the field ...)
1998(Richard Harvey Brown's pioneering explorations in the phi...)
1989(The United States is in transit from an industrial to a p...)
2005Physical Characteristics: The cause of Richard Brown's death was cancer.
Richard Brown married Nathalie Babel on April 5, 1967. The marriage produced one child, Ramiro Babel Brown.
