French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment

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French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment is an influential anthropological study by Paul Rabinow that examines how modern French society is shaped through the interplay of social norms, institutions, and forms of knowledge.

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instanceOf anthropological study
book
work of social theory
academicDiscipline cultural anthropology
social anthropology
aimsTo analyze how modernity is constituted in France
connect everyday practices with broader institutions
show how norms shape social environments
author Paul Rabinow NERFINISHED
contribution develops an anthropology of the contemporary in a French context
links ethnographic observation with social theory
countryOfFocus France NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork anthropology
social theory
sociology
focusesOn construction of modern subjectivity
forms of social regulation
interplay of norms and institutions
production of social order
relationship between knowledge and power
genre academic monograph
hasPerspectiveOn how institutions embody norms
how knowledge practices shape social life
influencedBy French structuralism NERFINISHED
Michel Foucault NERFINISHED
post-structuralism
language English
mainSubject forms of knowledge
institutions
modern French society
social norms
notableFor analysis of norms as forms of social environment
integration of French intellectual traditions into anthropology
relatedConcept discipline and normalization
governmentality
modernity
relatedWork Anthropology of Reason NERFINISHED
Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco NERFINISHED
setting France NERFINISHED
theoreticalApproach anthropology of modernity
historical anthropology
interpretive anthropology
timePeriodDiscussed 20th century
modern era
usedIn courses on modernity
courses on social theory
graduate education in anthropology

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Paul Rabinow notableWork French Modern: Norms and Forms of the Social Environment