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Human agents and social structures
The structure/agency debate has been among the central issues in recent discussions of social theory. It has been widely assumed that the key theoretical task is to find a link between social structures and acting human beings - to reconcile the macro with the micro, society and the individual. The...
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Oxford :
Manchester University Press,
2016.
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Table des matières:
- HUMAN AGENTS and SOCIAL STRUCTURES; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Notes on contributors; PART ONE: General issues; 1. Introduction: the opposition of structure and agency: Peter J. Martin and Alex Dennis; 2. The structure problem in the context of structure and agency controversies: Wes Sharrock and Graham Button; 3. On the retreat from collective concepts in sociology: Peter J. Martin; 4. Structure and agency as the products of dynamic social processes: Marx and modern social theory: Alex Dennis; PART TWO: Recent social theorists; 5. The two Habermases: Anthony King.
- 6. Pierre Bourdieu: from the model of reality to the reality of the model: Richard Jenkins7. The production and reproduction of social order: is structuration a solution?: Wes Sharrock; 8. On the reception of Foucault: Allison Cavanagh and Alex Dennis; PART THREE: After the debate; 9. Beyond social structure: Richard Jenkins; 10. Two kinds of social theory: the myth and reality of social existence: Anthony King; Bibliography; Index.