Missing Persons - A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences

Informationen zum Autor Mary Douglas is retired as a Professor at University College of London. Among her many published works is Risk and Culture ! coauthored with Aaron Wildavsky (California! 1982). Steven Ney is a researcher at the Institute for Technology and Society in Vienna and recently coauthored a chapter in the anthology Human Choice and Global Change ! due out in 1998. Klappentext "This book has all the brilliance! novel and unanticipated connections among ideas! thoughtfulness! and stylistic grace and daring that one always associates with the work of Mary Douglas."-Neil Smelser! author of Problematics of Sociology Zusammenfassung The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. This book finds this dominant tradition of social thought about poverty and well-being to be full of contradictions.

Product details

• Authors: Mary Douglas, Mary Ney Douglas, Professor Mary Douglas, Professor Mary Ney Douglas, Steven Ney, Ney Steven
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.11.1998
• EAN: 9780520207523
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20752-3
• No. of pages: 238
• Series: Wildavsky Forum; Wildavsky Forum Series; Wildavsky Forum Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Miscellaneous; Social Theory, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory