On justification : economies of worth / Luc Boltanski, Laurent Thévenot ; translated by Catherine Porter.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: (Sociology)Publication details: Oxford : Princeton University Press, 2006.Description: viii, 389 páginasContent type:
  • Texto
Media type:
  • sin mediacion
Carrier type:
  • volumen
ISBN:
  • 9780691118376
  • 069111837X
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 300.1 B65o
Review: A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the first English translation of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ambitious theoretical examination of these phenomena, a book that has already had a huge impact on French sociology and is likely to have a similar influence in the English-speaking world.
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A vital and underappreciated dimension of social interaction is the way individuals justify their actions to others, instinctively drawing on their experience to appeal to principles they hope will command respect. Individuals, however, often misread situations, and many disagreements can be explained by people appealing, knowingly and unknowingly, to different principles. On Justification is the first English translation of Luc Boltanski and Laurent Thévenot's ambitious theoretical examination of these phenomena, a book that has already had a huge impact on French sociology and is likely to have a similar influence in the English-speaking world.

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