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Field	Value

Title	A Method for Studying Social Actors

Creator	Touraine, Alaine

Description	So little agreement exists on what constitutes sociology that it seems impossible to de?ne its speci?c methods. We can however proceed through a series of eliminations. Light has been shed on many types of social behavior as economic studies have taken more interest in issues of social strati?cation and mobility or in consumer behavior, and as they increasingly incorporate elaborate quantitative analysis into this type of data. Correlations between social statuses and social behavior tell us about the logic of the system, yet not about that of the actors. Hence, we must imagine other methods in order to reach the actor as an autonomous being, as an agent of transformation of his environment and of his own situation, as a creator of imaginary worlds, as capable of referring to absolute values or of being involved in love relations.

Publisher	University Library System, University of Pittsburgh

Date	2000-11-26

Type	info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion —

Format	application/pdf

Identifier	http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/211 10.5195/jwsr.2000.211

Source	Journal of World-Systems Research; Volume 6, Issue 3, 2000; 900-918 1076-156X

Language	eng

Relation	http://jwsr.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/jwsr/article/view/211/223

Rights	Copyright (c) 2015 Alaine Touraine http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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