What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up - Couverture souple

Smith, Christian

 
9780226765945: What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0226765946 ISBN 13 : 9780226765945
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2011

Synopsis

What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist’s quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious book, Smith presents a new model for social theory that does justice to the best of our humanistic visions of people, life, and society.

Finding much current thinking on personhood to be confusing or misleading, Smith finds inspiration in critical realism and personalism. Drawing on these ideas, he constructs a theory of personhood that forges a middle path between the extremes of positivist science and relativism. Smith then builds on the work of Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and William Sewell to demonstrate the importance of personhood to our understanding of social structures. From there he broadens his scope to consider how we can know what is good in personal and social life and what sociology can tell us about human rights and dignity.

Innovative, critical, and constructive, What Is a Person? offers an inspiring vision of a social science committed to pursuing causal explanations, interpretive understanding, and general knowledge in the service of truth and the moral good.

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À propos de l?auteur

Christian Smith is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of Sociology, director of the Center for the Study of Religion and Society, and director of the Center for Social Research at the University of Notre Dame. He is the author or coauthor of numerous books, including Soul Searching: The Religious and Spiritual Lives of American Teenagers and Moral, Believing Animals: Human Personhood and Culture.

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Éditeur
University of Chicago Press
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0226765946
ISBN 13 
9780226765945
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
528
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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9780226765914: What Is a Person?: Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226765911 ISBN 13 :  9780226765914
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2010
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