Why Things Matter to People: Social Science, Values and Ethical Life

by Andrew Sayer

Book Overview

Andrew Sayer undertakes a fundamental critique of social science's difficulties in acknowledging that people's relation to the world is one of concern. As sentient beings, capable of flourishing and suffering, and particularly vulnerable to how others treat us, our view of the world is substantially evaluative. Yet modernist ways of thinking encourage the common but extraordinary belief that values are beyond reason, and merely subjective or matters...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521171644
• ISBN13: 9780521171649
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"