Structuration / John Parker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parker, John, 1946-

Series:

Concepts in the social sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sociology--Methodology.

Sociology.

Social structure.

Structuralism.

Physical Description:

xi, 142 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Buckingham [England] ; Philadelphia, Pa. : Open University, 2000.

Summary:

Structuration provides an introduction to this central debate in social theory and helps to explain the historical processes, producing the structures that shape human social life. The debate has important consequences for the way we explain the production and transformation of social structures such as institutions and rules, cultural traditions, and distributions of power and inequality.

Contents:

2 The Structurationist Imagination and the Making of History 14

3 Recovering Human Agency 26

Part 2 The 'Structurationists'

4 Bourdieu: Structuration through Power 39

5 Giddens: Structuration through Knowledgeable Persons 52

Part 3 Beyond the 'Structurationists'; Back to Reality

6 Archer: 'Structuration' and the Defence of 'Analytical Dualism' 69

7 Mouzelis: The Restructuring of 'Structuration' Theory 86

8 The Recovery of History and Structure 102

9 Structuration and Historical Sociology 114.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [126]-134) and index.

ISBN:

0335203957

0335203949

OCLC:

43836547