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Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences
Mary Douglas
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Description for Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences
Hardback. 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. Series: Wildavsky Forum Series. Num Pages: 237 pages, 11. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 149 x 217 x 21. Weight in Grams: 410.
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. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social thought about poverty and well-being to be full of contradictions. They argue that the root cause is the impoverished idea of the human person inherited through two centuries of intellectual history, and that two principles, the idea of the solipsist self and the idea of objectivity, cause most of the contradictions. Douglas and ... Read more
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. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social thought about poverty and well-being to be full of contradictions. They argue that the root cause is the impoverished idea of the human person inherited through two centuries of intellectual history, and that two principles, the idea of the solipsist self and the idea of objectivity, cause most of the contradictions. Douglas and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
University of California Press United States
Number of pages
237
Condition
New
Series
Wildavsky Forum Series
Number of Pages
238
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520207523
SKU
V9780520207523
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About Mary Douglas
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.
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