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Informationen zum Autor Blasco Jose Sobrinho is assistant professor of sociology! University of Cincinnati. Klappentext Addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. It surveys the range of 20th-century sociology to deconstruct those nostrums of subjective meaning! personal power and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. A very learned book, weaving together themes from many literatures, and must represent decades of reading and reflection. (Sobrinho) makes a valuable contribution in showing the congruence between Peirce's 'scientific realism' and Durkheim's social processes of moral and cognitive solidarity. -- Randall Collins, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology is an insightful and multiply informed book that reflects much reading and much thought. -- Nicholas Rescher, University of Pittsburgh Sobrinho's commentary on contemporary social thought is wide-ranging and eclectic, yet informed by a coherent and original perspective. This is the best new book on social theory to have come my way in a long time. -- Professor Adam Kuper, Department of Social Sciences/Social Anthropology Group Brunel University, Uxbridge, United Kingdom Zusammenfassung Addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. It surveys the range of 20th-century sociology to deconstruct those nostrums of subjective meaning! personal power and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Agency: Meaning! Perspectivism and Pragmatics Chapter 3 Social Power: The Signifying Context of Communicative Meaning Chapter 4 Empowerment: The Social Construction of the Self Chapter 5 Formal System: The Autopoietic Evolution of Pragmatic (Interpretant
