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Structure, culture and agency : selected papers of Margaret Archer / edited by Tom Brock, Mark Carrigan and Graham Scambler.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Archer, Margaret (Lecturer in medieval history), author.
- Series:
- Ontological explorations
- Standardized Title:
- Works. Selections
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social structure.
- Realism.
- Culture.
- Organization.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 320 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
- Contents:
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Realism's explanatory framework
- Thinking and theorizing about educational systems
- On predicting the behaviour of the educational system
- The myth of cultural integration
- The vexatious fact of society
- Morphogenesis versus structuration
- For structure : its reality, properties and powers
- The private life of the social agent
- The ontological status of subjectivity
- Reflexivity as the unacknowledged condition of social life
- A brief history of how reflexivity becomes imperative
- Self-government & self-organization as misleading metaphors
- The generative mechanism re-configuring late modernity
- How agency is transformed in the course of social transform
- Trajectory of the morphogenetic approach
- Interview with Maggie
- Annotated bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781138932944
- 1138932949
- OCLC:
- 961388139
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