Don't take it personally: personalness and impersonality in social life

In Don't Take It Personally, Eviatar Zerubavel comprehensively addresses the fundamental distinction between the specific and generic visions of personhood. While the former focuses on specifically "who" individuals are, as embodied by their driver's license and signature, the la...

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1. Verfasser: Zerubavel, Eviatar 1948- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2024
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Zusammenfassung:In Don't Take It Personally, Eviatar Zerubavel comprehensively addresses the fundamental distinction between the specific and generic visions of personhood. While the former focuses on specifically "who" individuals are, as embodied by their driver's license and signature, the latter vision concerns itself with "what" they are, as interchangeable members of particular social roles or groups. Over the course of the book, Zerubavel articulates the fundamental features and underlying logic of impersonality and considers what is gained and what is lost by impersonalizing so much of modern social life.
Cover -- Don't Take It Personally -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. "Who" Versus "What" -- Specific ("Who") Personhood -- Generic ("What") Personhood -- Sociology and Impersonality -- 2. "Who" Versus "How Many" -- Social Arithmetic -- Quotas -- Political Arithmetic -- Social Fractions -- 3. The Anatomy of Impersonality -- Social Identity -- Typicality -- Standardness -- Substitutability -- 4. Impersonalization -- Typification -- Standardization -- Institutionalization -- Substitution -- Anonymization -- Dispassion -- 5. Modernity and Impersonality -- Rationalism -- Urbanism -- Capitalism -- Automation -- 6. Impersonality and Its Discontents -- Stability and Predictability -- Dehumanization -- Personalization -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Beschreibung:1 Online-Ressource (113 Seiten)
ISBN:9780197691373
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197691335.001.0001