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Agency and Power
Blasco Jose Sobrinho
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Description for Agency and Power
Paperback. 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. Series: Postmodern Social Futures. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JFC; JHBA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 147 x 17. Weight in Grams: 490.
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. Revealed beneath this semantic screen is the triad of pragmatic codes—premodern affiliation, modern calibration, and postmodern globalization—that govern the social construction of the self. While the ill-comprehended confluence of these three signification codes in the present world situation can indeed fragment personal identity, their ... Read more
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. Revealed beneath this semantic screen is the triad of pragmatic codes—premodern affiliation, modern calibration, and postmodern globalization—that govern the social construction of the self. While the ill-comprehended confluence of these three signification codes in the present world situation can indeed fragment personal identity, their ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Series
Postmodern Social Futures
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Lanham, MD, United States
ISBN
9780847691791
SKU
V9780847691791
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About Blasco Jose Sobrinho
Blasco JosZ Sobrinho is assistant professor of sociology, University of Cincinnati.
Reviews for Agency and Power
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 ... Read more
Randall Collins, Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania Signs, Solidarities, and Sociology is an insightful and multiply informed book ... Read more