ISBN:
9781138788107
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (106 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Serie:
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory
Serie:
Routledge Library Editions: Social Theory Ser.
Paralleltitel:
Print version The Person in the Sight of Sociology (RLE Social Theory)
DDC:
301.1
Schlagwort(e):
Sociology
;
Persons
;
Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
Sociology is about society, but what about people? The person in the sight of sociology is all too often a matchstick being. In this original and stimulating book the person is characterized by what is inherent in a social being, and the result is a rich narrative, the story of the person told through events in life. The author holds that for sociological purposes, the person must be seen as perfect: perfectible, perfecting and perfect. He outlines the 'trialectical' nature of such a theory, offers a test of it in the making of madness and claims that such a change in vision is appropriate for
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Sighting the person; 2 A theory of the person; 3 The cup of constants; 4 The plain of contradictions; 5 The wheel of the life-cycle; 6 Some thoughts which may be obvious; 7 Sociology in the light of the person; Annotations; Bibliography
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