Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences Volume 1
(Part of the Wildavsky Forum Series Series)
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The Western cultural consensus based on the ideas of free markets and individualism has led many social scientists to consider poverty as a personal experience, a deprivation of material things, and a failure of just distribution. Mary Douglas and Steven Ney find this dominant tradition of social thought about poverty and well-being to be full of contradictions. They argue that the root cause is the impoverished idea of the human person inherited...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0520207521
ISBN13:9780520207523
Release Date:November 1998
Publisher:University of California Press
Length:238 Pages
Weight:1.06 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 5.6" x 8.3"
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