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

Autor Christian Smith
en Limba Engleză Paperback – dec 2011
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780226765945
ISBN-10: 0226765946
Pagini: 528
Ilustrații: 1 table
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 33 mm
Greutate: 0.7 kg
Editura: University of Chicago Press
Colecția University of Chicago Press

Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments   
Introduction
Part I. Initial Arguments
Chapter 1. The Emergence of Personhood   
Chapter 2. Key Theoretical Resources   
Part II. Critical Engagements
Chapter 3. The Reality of Social Construction    
Excursus: Getting to Truth   
Chapter 4. Network Structuralism’s Missing Persons   
Chapter 5. Persons and Mechanisms (Not) in Variables Sociology   
Part III. Constructive Development
Chapter 6. The Personal Sources of Social Structures   
Chapter 7. The Good   
Chapter 8. Human Dignity   
Postscript   
Index