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The causal power of social structures : emergence, structure and agency /
"The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over too years. This book offers a new solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of emergence, Dave Elder-Vass argues that, instead of ascribing causal significance to an abstra...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "The problem of structure and agency has been the subject of intense debate in the social sciences for over too years. This book offers a new solution. Using a critical realist version of the theory of emergence, Dave Elder-Vass argues that, instead of ascribing causal significance to an abstract notion of social structure or a monolithic concept of society, we must recognise that it is specific groups of people that have social structural power. Some of these groups are entities with emergent causal powers, distinct from those of human individuals. Yet these powers also depend on the contributions of human individuals, and this book examines the mechanisms through which interactions between human individuals generate the causal powers of some types of social structures. The Causal Power of Social Structures makes particularly important contributions to the theory of human agency and to our understanding of normative institutions."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xii, 221 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-217) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780511932403 0511932405 0511927223 9780511927225 0511924682 9780511924682 9780511761720 0511761724 1107204755 9781107204751 0511852258 9780511852251 9786612918636 6612918632 0511931069 9780511931062 0511929722 9780511929724 |