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By Christian Smith

What is anyone? This basic query is a perennial drawback of philosophers and theologians. yet, Christian Smith the following argues, it additionally lies on the heart of the social scientist’s quest to interpret and clarify social lifestyles. during this formidable ebook, Smith offers a brand new version for social thought that does justice to the easiest of our humanistic visions of individuals, lifestyles, and society.

Finding a lot present pondering on personhood to be complicated or deceptive, Smith unearths suggestion in serious realism and personalism. Drawing on those rules, he constructs a thought of personhood that forges a center course among the extremes of positivist technology and relativism. Smith then builds at the paintings of Pierre Bourdieu, Anthony Giddens, and William Sewell to illustrate the significance of personhood to our figuring out of social constructions. From there he broadens his scope to think about how we will comprehend what's solid in own and social lifestyles and what sociology can let us know approximately human rights and dignity.

Innovative, severe, and positive, What Is a Person? bargains an inspiring imaginative and prescient of a social technology devoted to pursuing causal motives, interpretive realizing, and basic wisdom within the carrier of fact and the ethical good.

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