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The Plural Actor
Bernard Lahire
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Paperback. * Lahire is a leading French sociologist who has developed an original theoretical approach that is indebted to Pierre Bourdieu but less deterministic in character. * This book presents the core of his theory of the plural actor . Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: JHB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 450.
The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular context or from a single dimension. The actor is analysed as a student, worker, consumer, spouse, reader, sportsperson, a voter etc. However, in societies where individuals live often through simultaneously and successively heterogeneous and sometimes contradictory social experiences, each person inevitably carries a plurality of roles, ways of seeing, feeling and acting.
The individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular context or from a single dimension. The actor is analysed as a student, worker, consumer, spouse, reader, sportsperson, a voter etc. However, in societies where individuals live often through simultaneously and successively heterogeneous and sometimes contradictory social experiences, each person inevitably carries a plurality of roles, ways of seeing, feeling and acting.
The aim of this study is to consider the ways in which this plurality of worlds and experiences are incorporated into the being of each individual and to observe the ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745646855
SKU
V9780745646855
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About Bernard Lahire
Bernard Lahire is the author of The Plural Actor, published by Wiley.
Reviews for The Plural Actor
"Lahire is disparaging of that 'umpteenth version of a theory of the free'; any feeling of freedom or ironic consciousness is simply the result of the complexity of that determination of whose actual weight individuals can have no practical intuition. But perhaps more than anything else, this book demonstrates the continuing validity and relevance - and for Bourdieuians 'more than ... Read more