Human agents and social structures /
Human agents and social structures /
edited by Peter J. Martin and Alex Dennis.
- viii, 183 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-179) and index.
General issues -- the opposition of structure and agency / The structure problem in the context of structure and agency controversies / On the retreat from collective concepts in sociology / Structure and agency as the products of dynamic social processes : Marx and modern social theory / Recent social theorists -- The two Habermases / Pierre Bourdieu : from the model of reality to the reality of the model / The production and reproduction of social order : is structuration a solution? / On the reception of Foucault / After the debate -- Beyond social structure / Two kinds of social theory : the myth and reality of social existence / Peter J. Martin and Alex Dennis -- Wes Sharrock and Graham Button -- Peter J. Martin -- Alex Dennis -- Anthony King -- Richard Jenkins -- Wes Sharrock -- Allison Cavanagh and Alex Dennis -- Richard Jenkins -- Anthony King. Introduction :
"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 contributors to this book reject this solution to the problem. For them, both the concept of 'society' as an entity and the freely-acting 'individual' are theoretical fiction. Rather, the immediate task of the social sciences is to take the social world seriously, to understand the ways in which that world emerges dynamically from, and exerts influence on, the interactions of real people in real situations."--Publisher's website.
071907861X 9780719078613 0719081726 9780719081729
2010285816
Social structure
Agent (Philosophy)
HM706 / .H86 2010
301
Includes bibliographical references (pages [166]-179) and index.
General issues -- the opposition of structure and agency / The structure problem in the context of structure and agency controversies / On the retreat from collective concepts in sociology / Structure and agency as the products of dynamic social processes : Marx and modern social theory / Recent social theorists -- The two Habermases / Pierre Bourdieu : from the model of reality to the reality of the model / The production and reproduction of social order : is structuration a solution? / On the reception of Foucault / After the debate -- Beyond social structure / Two kinds of social theory : the myth and reality of social existence / Peter J. Martin and Alex Dennis -- Wes Sharrock and Graham Button -- Peter J. Martin -- Alex Dennis -- Anthony King -- Richard Jenkins -- Wes Sharrock -- Allison Cavanagh and Alex Dennis -- Richard Jenkins -- Anthony King. Introduction :
"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 contributors to this book reject this solution to the problem. For them, both the concept of 'society' as an entity and the freely-acting 'individual' are theoretical fiction. Rather, the immediate task of the social sciences is to take the social world seriously, to understand the ways in which that world emerges dynamically from, and exerts influence on, the interactions of real people in real situations."--Publisher's website.
071907861X 9780719078613 0719081726 9780719081729
2010285816
Social structure
Agent (Philosophy)
HM706 / .H86 2010
301