{"product_id":"the-plural-actor-hardback-9780745646848","title":"The Plural Actor (Hardback) 9780745646848","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Plural Actor\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eBernard Lahire (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780745646848, Polity Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 December 2010\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e280 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.6 x 16 x 2.6 cm, 0.576 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Lahire is disparaging of that 'umpteenth version of a theory of the free'; any feeling of freedom or ironic consciousness is simply the result of the complexity of that determination of whose actual weight individuals can have no practical intuition. But perhaps more than anything else, this book demonstrates the continuing validity and relevance - and for Bourdieuians 'more than ever' - of just such theories of freedom.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e   \u003cp\u003e\"Congratulations to Bernard Lahire for opening a new window. With the decline of primordial thinking (stressing race, class, gender, and nationhood), heightened by globalization, he suggests how to see, and conceptualize, the social world in an open, pluralistic mode. He builds on tradition, milieu, and context, but shows how thinking, goals, and a plurality of values combine in what we do.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eTerry Nichols Clark, University of Chicago\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe individual that the social sciences take as an object is most often studied in a particular context or from a single dimension. The actor is analysed as a student, worker, consumer, spouse, reader, sportsperson, a voter etc. However, in societies where individuals live often through simultaneously and successively heterogeneous and sometimes contradictory social experiences, each person inevitably carries a plurality of roles, ways of seeing, feeling and acting.  \u003cp\u003eThe aim of this study is to consider the ways in which this plurality of worlds and experiences are incorporated into the being of each individual and to observe the individual's actions in a variety of settings. In addition to his sociological viewpoint, the author engages with psychology, history, anthropology and philosophy. His reflections lead him to embark on a program of psychological sociology to highlight the complexities of this plural view of the social.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePrologue.  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAct I: Sketch of a Theory of the Plural Actor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene I: The Plural Actor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn Singleness.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe single self: a commonplace illusion, but socially well-founded.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sociohistorical conditions of singleness and plurality.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe plurality of social contexts and repertoires of habits.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe Proustian model of the plural actor.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSplitting of the self and mental conflict: crossings of social space.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene II. The Wellsprings of Action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePresence of the past, present of action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe many occasions for maladjustment and crisis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe plurality of the actor and the openings of the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eConditional dispositions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe negative power of the context: inhibition and latency.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Code switching' and 'code mixing' within the same context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eActors uncertainly swinging.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene III. Analogy and Transfer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePractical analogy and the triggers of action and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eInvoluntary action and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe role of habits.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom analytic transfer to the interview relationship.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA relative transferability.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom general to partial schemas.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eFrom generalized transfer to limited and conditional transfer.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene IV: Literary Experience: Reading, Daydreams and Parapraxes.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAct II. Reflexivities and Logics of Action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene I: School, Action, and Language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe scholastic break with practical reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSaussure, or the pure theory of scholastic practices on language.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe social conditions of departure from practical reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene II. The Everyday Practices of Writing in Action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEmbodied memory, objectified memory.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eEveryday breaks with practical reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e'Doing it like that'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMemory for the unusual.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe longer term and preparing the future.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eManaging complex practices.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe official, the formal, and tense situations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe presence of the absent.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eTemporary disturbances of practical reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe use of plans: lists of all kinds.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe relative pertinence of practical reason.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene III. The Plural Logics of Action.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe ambiguity of a singular practice.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe sporting model of practical reason and its limitations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntentionality and the levels of context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePlurality of times and logics of action.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAct III. Forms of Embodiment.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene I. The Place of Language.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe world of silence.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe punctuation of action and its theorization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eLanguage and the forms of social life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe mysterious inside.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene II. What Exactly Is Embodied?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eProcesses of embodimentÐinternalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe polymorphic embodiment of written culture in the world of the family.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNegative identifications and the force of implicit injunctions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAct IV. Workshops and Debates.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene I. Psychological Sociology.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAn exit from sociology?\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe objectivity of the 'subjective'.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe singular folds of the social.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eMultideterminism and the sense of freedom.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNew methodological requirements.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eScene II. Pertinent Fields.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eOn excessive generalization.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe varying scale of context in the social sciences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eExperimental variation and loss of illusions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe historicizing of universal theories and fields of pertinence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Society \u0026amp; culture: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Society \u0026amp; culture: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Society%20\u0026amp;%20culture:%20general%20%5BJF%5D%22\"\u003eJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Polity","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52407316054296,"sku":"9780745646848","price":46.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/files\/9780745646848.jpg?v=1784161163","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-plural-actor-hardback-9780745646848","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}