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Crespi, Franco was born on May 24, 1930 in Trezzo D'Adda, Italy. Son of Emilio and Anna Maria (Manzi-Fe) Crespi.
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Social Action and Power
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'Franco Crespi's timely study aims at the very heart of contemporary sociological discourse. He provides a superb chart of a crucial and vast area of controversy.' Zygmunt Bauman. The relationship between agency and structure, individual and society, is at the heart of modern sociology, and has a history almost as long as social science itself. Franco Crespi here writes a part of that history, tracing the social action debate from its origins, through the work of such theorists as Parsons, Luhmann, Boudon, Bourdieu, Giddens, Habermas and Alexander. While providing an outstanding survey of theories of social action (and a 'career report' on this central debate) Crespi also takes the field a step further, developing a third road between the positivist and humanist approaches he so clearly outlines. Blending the problematics of social action with analysis of the ambivalent relation between action and the symbolic order, Crespi then redefines power as the ability of individuals and groups to cope with seemingly irreconcilable contradictions. Power thus becomes the intersecting point between agency and structure. Selected for special mention by the international jury of the European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and Social Sciences in 1990, Social Action and Power will be welcomed by students and scholars in sociology, political science and philosophy.
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Evento e struttura: Per una teoria del mutamento sociale (Ricerca) (Italian Edition)
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Franco Crespi
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Diploma in Sociology, 1958.
Career
Professor Sociology, U. International Social Studies, Rome, 1961-1974; director Institute Sociology, U. International Social Studies, 1961-1974; director Special Sociology Studies, U. International Social Studies, 1962-1974; associate professor sociology, U. degli Studi, Perugia, Italy, 1967-1974; director Institute Sociology, U. Perugia, since 1972; professor, U. Perugia, since 1975. Chairman faculty Political Science, U. Perugia, 1986-1992.
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Social Action and Power
('Franco Crespi's timely study aims at the very heart of c...)
- Le vie della sociologia: Problemi, teorie, metodi (Strumenti. Sociologia) (Italian Edition)
- Evento e struttura: Per una teoria del mutamento sociale (Ricerca) (Italian Edition)
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Social Action and Power
Membership
Member International Sociology Association, Associazione Italiana di Sociologia.
Connections
Married Maria Catherina Faina, November 21, 1959. Children: Anna Maria, Sebastiano, Maria Camilla, Andrea.
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Italian