Morphogenesis Answers Its Critics / Margaret S. Archer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archer, Margaret S. (Margaret Scotford), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical realism.

Critical discourse analysis.

Morphogenesis.

Philosophy, Modern.

Social change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 221 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2024]

Summary:

"Margaret S. Archer is responsible for important conceptual developments in critical realism and the structure-agent problem but her explanatory framework often opposes those of other influential theorists. In this book she provides a response to critics of her work in the form of a set of discussions of published articles"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

List of Figures

1 The Morphogenetic Approach and Its Trajectory: A First-Person Account by the Author

At the Start

Resisting the Three Forms of Conflation

Reflexivity as Mediating Social Forms

Part I Culture

2 When Culture Is Marginalized

Article Abstract

Structure in Relation to Culture

3 Critical Realists Do Debate Culture

Introduction

Archer

Elder-Vass

Postscript: Analysing Culture and Its Relations to SAC

4 Should Concepts of Culture Give More Prominence to Critical Discourse Analysis?

Collaboration at the Micro, Meso and Macro Levels

The Micro Level

The Meso or Organizational Level

The Macro Level (Institutional Interrelations)

Cultural Conditioning (CS)

Socio-Cultural (S-C) Interaction

Cultural Elaboration

Conclusion

Structure and Agency

Agency

Part II Structure

5 Misrepresenting SAC as Dualism

Kemp's Denial of Any Separation between Subject and Object

The Parody of 'Realist Dualism'

The Structured Context Anathematized

Interests Don't Stand Alone

Agential Concerns and Their Attempts to Forge a Modus Vivendi

How Concerns Evade Constraints

at a Price

Contextual Continuity Can Trump Enablements to Social Mobility

6 The Majority of Agents Are the Dead: Implications for Central Conflation

The Dismissal of Temporality by Piiroinen

Why History Will Not Go Away: The Patrimony of the Dead

Objective Interests

Opportunity Costs

Situational Logic of Action

Agents' Personal Powers: Their Mediatory Implications

Presentism and Sociological Populism

7 Can Structuration and Morphogenesis Be Compatible?

Rob Stones's Commentary and Arguments for Compatibility

Temporality

Structural Conditioning

Inside or Outside the Agent

Six Problematics for Practical Social Analysis

(1) Investigating the Causal Process over Time in Terms of an Unfolding Process of Interaction between Structure and Agency

(2) Investigating the Distribution of Structural Options Available to Agents at Any One Time

(3) Investigating the Durability of Particular Structures Whether Defined as SEPs (Structural Emergent Properties) (as in Archer's work), as 'Virtual' Structures (as in Giddens's Work) or as a Combination of Both

(4) Investigating the Necessary Internal Relations of Structures (SEPs), such as Landlord-Tenant Relations

(5) Investigating the Apparent Compatibilities and/or Incompatibilities between Structures in Terms of Their Situational Logics

(6) Investigating the Conjunctural, Hermeneutically Informed Relations between Social and Systems Integration

Part III Agency

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 28 Mar 2024).

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781009405447

1009405446

9781009405423

100940542X

9781009405430

1009405438