The Plural Actor

by Bernard Lahire

2021-01-01 10:59:05

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... Read more
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 individual''s actions in a variety of settings. In addition to his sociological viewpoint, the author engages with psychology, history, anthropology and philosophy. His reflections lead him to embark on a program of psychological sociology to highlight the complexities of this plural view of the social.

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File size9.3 X 6.32 X 1.02 in
Print pages280
PublisherWiley
Publication date February 7, 2011
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780745646848
Bernard Lahire is Professor of Sociology at the École Normale Superieure de Lyon.  He has published over twenty books, including This is Not a Painting and The Plural Actor....

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