What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up

Name: What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
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ISBN: 9780226765945

ISBN-10: 0226765946

ISBN-13: 9780226765945

Edition: 2011

Authors: Christian Smith

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What is a person? This fundamental question is a perennial concern of philosophers and theologians. But, Christian Smith here argues, it also lies at the center of the social scientist's quest to interpret and explain social life. In this ambitious book, Smith presents a new model for social theory that does justice to the best of our humanistic visions of people, life, and society. Finding much current thinking on personhood to be confusing or misleading, Smith finds inspiration in critical realism and personalism. Drawing on these ideas, he constructs a theory of personhood that forges a middle path between the extremes of positivist science and relativism. Smith then builds on the work…

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List price: $35.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 11/30/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 528
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.91" long x 0.11" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Initial Arguments



The Emergence of Personhood



Key Theoretical Resources



Critical Engagements



The Reality of Social Construction


Excursus: Getting to Truth



Network Structuralism's Missing Persons



Persons and Mechanisms (Not) in Variables Sociology



Constructive Development



The Personal Sources of Social Structures



The Good



Human Dignity


Postscript


Index