Self-Presentation and Representative Politics: Essays in Context, 1960-2020 Robbins Derek
Self-Presentation and Representative Politics: Essays in Context, 1960-2020 Robbins Derek The book has an introduction outlining the conceptual framework that gives meaning to the six collected texts…
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Self-Presentation and Representative Politics: Essays in Context, 1960-2020 Robbins Derek
The book has an introduction outlining the conceptual framework that gives meaning to the six collected texts that follow. He stated that 'everything is social, ' which means that all discourses have to be understood in their own terms (as 'structured structures') and in relation to the social conditions in which they developed ('structuring structures'). This framework derives from the work of Pierre Bourdieu.
With particular reference to the 'field' of politics, the Introduction considers theoretically the nature of the 'presentation of self' (Goffman) of citizens and the nature of parliamentary democracy as 'presentation' or 'representation' (as discussed in Habermas: The structural transformation of the public sphere).The six As social individuals we are constrained by the structures defining our situation but we also have the capacity to alter those structures.