"The" fifth modality

"This is a book written about how people understand each other. Like Simmel's writings and works written by Foucault and Goffman towards the ends of their careers, this book depicts interactions as behavioral forms. Its novelty is that it grounds these forms in discourse within all mass societies. Its concluding argument is that all persons, situations, and cultures have mutual significance in accordance with four fundamental modal forms: ability (most common in the United States), necessity (most common in the socialist countries of Western Europe and Scandinavia), obligation (most common in ancient Chinese and Indic societies), and permission (most common in the Islamic world)."--Jacket.

שנה

2008

שפה

English

סדרה

International comparative social studies

הוצאה

Brill

מהדורות

1

עמודים

191

ISBN

9789004162358

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata