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Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences - Wildavsky Forum Series GE Foundation) edition
Mary Douglas
Missing Persons: A Critique of the Personhood in the Social Sciences - Wildavsky Forum Series GE Foundation) edition
Mary Douglas
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. This book finds this dominant tradition of social thought about poverty and well-being to be full of contradictions.
237 pages, 11
Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
Released | November 4, 1998 |
ISBN13 | 9780520207523 |
Publishers | University of California Press |
Pages | 238 |
Dimensions | 217 × 149 × 21 mm · 410 g |
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