Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology - Charles S. Peirce and the Pragmatics of Globalization

Informationen zum Autor Blasco JosZ Sobrinho is assistant professor of sociology, University of Cincinnati. Klappentext Signs, Solidarities, & Sociology addresses the formation and fragmentation of identity in today's postmodern world. Informed by the conceptual convergence in the theories of Durkheim, Peirce, Mead, and Lacan, this book surveys the range of twentieth-century sociology to deconstruct those favored nostrums of subjective meaning, personal power, and autonomous selfhood that comprise its semantics of agency. 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

Product details

• Authors: Blasco Jose Sobrinho, Blasco José Sobrinho
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.2001
• EAN: 9780847691791
• ISBN: 978-0-8476-9179-1
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Postmodern Social Futures; Postmodern Social Futures (Pap; Postmodern Social Futures (Pap; Postmodern Social Futures
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Cultural Studies, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory