Initial arguments
The emergence of personhood
Key theoretical resources
Critical engagements
The reality of social construction
Excursus: getting to truth
Network structuralism's missing persons
Persons and mechanisms (not) in variables sociology
Constructive development
The personal sources of social structures
The good
Human dignity
Postscript.
What is a person? : rethinking humanity, social life, and the moral good from the person up by Christian Smith. ISBN 9780226765914. Published by University of Chicago Press in 2010. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.