Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences Volume 1

by Mary Douglas and Steven Ney

Book Overview

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"