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The Plural Actor

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The 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. The 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.

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1998

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Bernard Lahire

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Bernard Lahire (né en 1963) est un sociologue français, professeur de sociologie à l'École normale supérieure de Lyon et directeur de l'Équipe Dispositions, pouvoirs, cultures, socialisations du Centre Max-Weber (CNRS). Médaille d’argent du CNRS 2012. Il dirige la collection « Laboratoire des sciences sociales » aux Éditions La Découverte depuis 2002.

Ses travaux portent sur la production de l'échec scolaire à l'école primaire, les modes populaires d'appropriation de l'écrit, les réussites scolaires en milieux populaires, les différentes manières d'étudier dans l'espace de l'enseignement supérieur, l'histoire du problème social appelé « illettrisme », les pratiques culturelles des Français, les conditions de vie et de création des écrivains, ou encore l'œuvre de Franz Kafka.

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