Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Social Theorizing as a Language-borne Practice -- Chapter One: Durkheim's Structures: Writing the Emergence of the Social -- Chapter Two: Marx: Labouring for Structure -- Chapter Three: Weber's Structures: Deferral, Rationality and the Heroes of History -- Chapter Four: Parsons' Structures: Writing Order -- Chapter Five: Althusser's Structure: The 'Epistemological Obstacle' of Complexity -- Conclusion: Reading Texts, Writing Theory: Against the Illusion of Transparency -- Notes -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.