What Is a Person? Rethinking Humanity, Social Life, and the Moral Good from the Person Up
“My purpose in this book,” explains Christian Smith at the outset of his deeply learned work, “is to construct a theoretical model of the ontology of the nature of human being” (10). Upon reading this and what follows, I can imagine some sociologists—especially those already busy with numerous teach...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford Univ. Press
2011
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Sociology of religion
Year: 2011, Volume: 72, Issue: 3, Pages: 378-380 |
| Review of: | What is a person? (Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : Univ. of Chicago Press, 2011) (Baggett, Jerome P.)
What is a person? (Chicago, Ill. [u.a.] : University of Chicago Press, 2010) (Baggett, Jerome P.) |
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| Summary: | “My purpose in this book,” explains Christian Smith at the outset of his deeply learned work, “is to construct a theoretical model of the ontology of the nature of human being” (10). Upon reading this and what follows, I can imagine some sociologists—especially those already busy with numerous teaching and research responsibilities—asking why thinking through a new “metatheoretical framework” (489) for the social sciences is really necessary. Others with expertise in the many scholarly disciplines and sociological subfields Smith engages may, I suspect, quibble or contend with him on specific points here and there. Still others may want a clearer sense of the analytical payoff that might come from doing sociology “from the person up. |
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| ISSN: | 1759-8818 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Sociology of religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srr041 |