Tom Brock, Mark Carrigan, Graham Scambler

Structure, Culture and Agency

Selected Papers of Margaret Archer

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Produktbeschreibung

Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of her research over almost four decades.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 342
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781138932944
• ISBN-10: 1138932949
• Artikelnr.: 43678277

Autorenporträt

Tom Brock is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. Mark Carrigan is Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Ontology at the University of Warwick, UK. Graham Scambler is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at UCL, UK, and Visiting Professor of Sociology at Surrey University, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Introduction
Realism's Explanatory Framework
1. Thinking and Theorizing About Educational Systems
2. On Predicting the Behaviour of the Educational System
3. The Myth of Cultural Integration
4. The vexatious fact of society
5. Morphogenesis versus structuration
6. For structure: its reality, properties and powers
7. The private life of the social agent
8. The Ontological Status of subjectivity
9. Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life
10. A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative
11. Self-Government & Self-Organization as Misleading Metaphors
12. The generative mechanism re-configuring late modernity
13. How Agency is Transformed in the Course of Social Transform
Trajectory of the Morphogenetic Approach
Interview with Maggie
Annotated Bibliography