Status, Power and Ritual Interaction: A Relational Reading of Durkheim, Goffman and Collins - Couverture rigide

Kemper, Theodore D.

 
9781409427360: Status, Power and Ritual Interaction: A Relational Reading of Durkheim, Goffman and Collins

Synopsis

Numerous sociologists suppose that ritual is foundational for social life. Kemper, however, argues that status and power structure social relations, determine emotions and link individuals to the reference groups that deliver culture and administer preferences, actions, beliefs and ideas. An important contention is that allegiance to fundamental ideas is primarily faithfulness to the reference groups that foster them, not to the ideas themselves. This triggers the counter-intuitive deduction that the concept of the self is both feckless and irrelevant.

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À propos de l?auteur

Theodore D. Kemper is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at St John's University, New York, USA. He won the T. F. Evans prize in the Shaw Society of the UK's 'Write like Shaw' contest in 2011 for his fourth act to the George Bernard Shaw play, Candida.

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9780367602208: Status, Power and Ritual Interaction

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ISBN 10 :  0367602202 ISBN 13 :  9780367602208
Editeur : Routledge, 2020
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