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Theory Beyond Structure and Agency

Author : Jean-Sébastien Guy
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 303018983X
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Theory Beyond Structure and Agency written by Jean-Sébastien Guy and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a solution for the problem of structure and agency in sociological theory by developing a new pair of fundamental concepts: metric and nonmetric. Nonmetric forms, arising in a crowd made out of innumerable individuals, correspond to social groups that divide the many individuals in the crowd into insiders and outsiders. Metric forms correspond to congested zones like traffic jams on a highway: individuals are constantly entering and leaving these zones so that they continue to exist, even though the individuals passing through them change. Building from these concepts, we can understand “agency” as a requirement for group identity and group membership, thus associating it with nonmetric forms, and “structure” as a building-up effect following the accumulation of metric forms. This reveals the contradiction between structure and agency to be a case of forced perspective, leaving us victim to an optical illusion.

Theory Beyond Structure and Agency

Author : Jean-Sébastien Guy
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9783030189853
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Theory Beyond Structure and Agency written by Jean-Sébastien Guy and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2020-09-20 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a solution for the problem of structure and agency in sociological theory by developing a new pair of fundamental concepts: metric and nonmetric. Nonmetric forms, arising in a crowd made out of innumerable individuals, correspond to social groups that divide the many individuals in the crowd into insiders and outsiders. Metric forms correspond to congested zones like traffic jams on a highway: individuals are constantly entering and leaving these zones so that they continue to exist, even though the individuals passing through them change. Building from these concepts, we can understand “agency” as a requirement for group identity and group membership, thus associating it with nonmetric forms, and “structure” as a building-up effect following the accumulation of metric forms. This reveals the contradiction between structure and agency to be a case of forced perspective, leaving us victim to an optical illusion.

The Structure of Social Theory

Author : Anthony King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415652065
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book The Structure of Social Theory written by Anthony King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last three decades, social theory has become an increasingly important subdiscipline within sociology. Social theory has attempted to elucidate the philosophical basis of sociology by defining the nature of social reality. According to social theory, society consists of objective institutions, structure, on the one hand, and individuals, agency on the other, it promotes human social relations, insisting that in every instance social reality consists of these relations.

Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives

Author : Magda Nico
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000367746
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives written by Magda Nico and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-12 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Structure and Agency in Young People’s Lives brings together different takes on the possible combinations of agency and structure in the life course, thus rejecting the notion that young individuals are the single masters of their lives, but also the view that their social destinies are completely out of their hands. ‘How did I get here?’ This is a question young people have always asked themselves and is often asked by youth researchers. There is no easy and single answer. The lives that are told, on one hand, and their interpretation, on the other, may have the underlying idea of 'own doing' or the idea of 'social determinism' or, more accurately and frequently, a combination of the two. This collection constitutes a comprehensive map on how to make sense of youth’s biographies and trajectories, it questions and reshapes the discussion on the role and responsibility of youth studies in the understanding of how people juggle opportunities and constraints, and contributes to escaping what Furlong and Cartmel identified as the "epistemological fallacy of late modernity", in which young people find themselves responsible for collective failures or inevitabilities. It can thus interest students, researchers and professors, youth workers and all of those who work for and with young people.

Political Analysis

Author : Colin Hay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350318000
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Political Analysis written by Colin Hay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political Analysis provides an accessible and engaging yet original introduction and distinctive contribution, to the analysis of political structures, institutions, ideas and behaviours, and above all, to the political processes through which they are constantly made and remade. Following an innovative introduction to the main approaches and concepts in political analysis, the text focuses thematically on the key issues which currently concern and divide political analysts, including the boundaries of the political; the question of structure, agency and power; the dynamics of political change; the relative significance of ideas and material factors; and the challenge posed by postmodernism which the author argues the discipline can strengthen itself by addressing without allowing it to become a recipe for paralysis.

The Unmasking Style in Social Theory

Author : Peter Baehr
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351608347
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Unmasking Style in Social Theory written by Peter Baehr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-05-01 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the nature of unmasking in social theory, in revolutionary movements and in popular culture. Unmasking is not the same as scientific refutation or principled disagreement. When people unmask, they claim to rip off a disguise, revealing the true beneath the feigned. The author distinguishes two basic types of unmasking. The first, aimed at persons or groups, exposes hypocrisy and enmity, and is a staple of revolutionary movements. The second, aimed at ideas, exposes illusions and ideologies, and is characteristic of radical social theory since the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. The Unmasking Style in Social Theory charts the intellectual origins of unmasking, its shifting priorities, and its specific techniques in social theory. It also explores sociology’s relationship to the concept of unmasking through an analysis of writers who embrace, adapt or reshape its meaning. Such sociologists include Vilfredo Pareto, Karl Mannheim, Raymond Aron, Peter Berger, Pierre Bourdieu, Luc Boltanski and Christian Smith. Finally, taking conspiracy theories, accusations of social phobia and new concepts such as micro-aggression as examples of unmasking techniques, the author shows how unmasking contributes to the polarization and bitterness of much public discussion. Demonstrating how unmasking is baked into modern culture, yet arguing that alternatives to it are still possible, this book is, in sum, a compelling study of unmasking and its impact upon modern political life and social theory.

Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation

Author : Margaret Scotford Archer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521535977
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Structure, Agency and the Internal Conversation written by Margaret Scotford Archer and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-28 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between structure and agency through human reflexivity and the internal conversation.

Agents, Structures and International Relations

Author : Colin Wight
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139460269
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Agents, Structures and International Relations written by Colin Wight and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-10-12 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The agent-structure problem is a much discussed issue in the field of international relations. In his comprehensive 2006 analysis of this problem, Colin Wight deconstructs the accounts of structure and agency embedded within differing IR theories and, on the basis of this analysis, explores the implications of ontology - the metaphysical study of existence and reality. Wight argues that there are many gaps in IR theory that can only be understood by focusing on the ontological differences that construct the theoretical landscape. By integrating the treatment of the agent-structure problem in IR theory with that in social theory, Wight makes a positive contribution to the problem as an issue of concern to the wider human sciences. At the most fundamental level politics is concerned with competing visions of how the world is and how it should be, thus politics is ontology.

Society in Action

Author : Piotr Sztompka
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226788159
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book Society in Action written by Piotr Sztompka and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1991-08-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Society in Action, Piotr Sztompka sets forth a highly topical contribution to central theoretical debates of contemporary sociology. Taking the idea and practice of collective mobilization as his theme, Sztompka argues that modern institutions, particularly of late, are characterized by an increasing awareness of collective empowerment. The most obvious concrete expression of this phenomenon, as Sztompka makes clear, is the rise of a diversity of active social movements such as those which dramatically transformed Europe in the 1980s, from the birth of Solidarity in 1980 to the 1989 "Autumn of Nations." Sztompka connects the interpretations of such collective activity to a wider grasp of the nature of social action. The result is a comprehensive and original theory of social change which focuses on the self-transforming influence on society of its members' striving for freedom, autonomy, and self-fulfillment. He develops his theory by means of a general concept of "social becoming," the roots of which he traces to the early romantic and humanist work of Karl Marx and his followers and to two influential sociological schools of today, the theory of agency and historical sociology. Sztompka situates his theory midway between the rigid determinism of social totalities and the unbridled voluntarism of free individuals. Social change, he demonstrates, can be understood neither as the outcome of individual actions taken alone nor as structurally determined actions. Instead, he confers upon social organizations and movements a "self-transcending" quality: they express human agency yet, by virtue of their active character, are quite often able to achieve unpredictable outcomes. Throughout his analysis of social movements and revolutions in history, Sztompka emphasizes the dynamics of spontaneous social change generated from below—a theoretical testimony to the rapid and fundamental social change in Eastern Europe in recent history. Against the fashions of postmodernist malaise, boredom, and disenchantment, his theory of social becoming expresses the possibility of emancipation, of change leading to positive gains. His work registers a belief in progress, not inevitably gained, but its attainment fully dependent upon the creativity and optimism of an active citizenry.

A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory

Author : Maurice Yolles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108833322
Total Pages : 729 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book A Configuration Approach to Mindset Agency Theory written by Maurice Yolles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-07-29 with total page 729 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new agency paradigm that can resolve complex socio-political situations in cross-cultural environments.

The Constitution of Society

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0745665284
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book The Constitution of Society written by Anthony Giddens and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-06-28 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthony Giddens has been in the forefront of developments in social theory for the past decade. In The Constitution of Society he outlines the distinctive position he has evolved during that period and offers a full statement of a major new perspective in social thought, a synthesis and elaboration of ideas touched on in previous works but described here for the first time in an integrated and comprehensive form. A particular feature is Giddens's concern to connect abstract problems of theory to an interpretation of the nature of empirical method in the social sciences. In presenting his own ideas, Giddens mounts a critical attack on some of the more orthodox sociological views. The Constitution of Society is an invaluable reference book for all those concerned with the basic issues in contemporary social theory.

Sociology Today

Author : Arnaud Sales
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1446268926
Total Pages : 465 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Sociology Today written by Arnaud Sales and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 465 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are living in a turbulent world marked by fast, continuous social changes that affect the lives of individuals, families, communities, organizations, businesses, nation-states, and international networks. This fundamentally commits contemporary sociology to being a science of change. This collection effectively mirrors this diversity and variety of transformations underway in today′s societies and transnational spaces. Written by a group of internationally renowned sociologists, it offers a cutting edge understanding of what is happening in our life worlds, work lives and frames of social existence. Bringing up issues such as political turbulence, cultural and artistic dynamics, family changes, gender roles, migration flows and social movements, it is a timely contribution that discusses transformation and globalization and their consequences in both theoretical and substansive terms. Illuminating and comprehensive, this book will be of immense use for sociology students on all levels, as well as lecturers, researchers and others who are interested in social life and the consequences of human action. Arnaud Sales is Emeritus Proessor of Sociology at the University of Montreal, Canada.

Central Problems in Social Theory

Author : Anthony Giddens
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520039759
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (397 download)

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Download or read book Central Problems in Social Theory written by Anthony Giddens and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1979-11-29 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "One of the most creative among the younger generation of critical social theorists, Giddens stands alone in his concern for the classical tradition on sociology; but he also makes brilliant use of the latest philosophical and theoretical work of several contemporary schools and disciplines. A very important book for all of social science."—Jeffrey C. Alexander

Strategy as Practice

Author : Gerry Johnson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521862930
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Strategy as Practice written by Gerry Johnson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an analysis of what managers actually do in relation to the development of strategy in organisations.

Structure, Culture and Agency

Author : Tom Brock
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317392493
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Structure, Culture and Agency written by Tom Brock and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Margaret Archer is a leading critical realist and major contemporary social theorist. This edited collection seeks to celebrate the scope and accomplishments of her work, distilling her theoretical and empirical contributions into four sections which capture the essence and trajectory of her research over almost four decades. Long fascinated with the problem of structure and agency, Archer’s work has constituted a decade-long engagement with this perennial issue of social thought. However, in spite of the deep interconnections that unify her body of work, it is rarely treated as a coherent whole. This is doubtless in part due to the unforgiving rigour of her arguments and prose, but also a byproduct of sociology’s ongoing compartmentalisation. This edited collection seeks to address this relative neglect by collating a selection of papers, spanning Archer’s career, which collectively elucidate both the development of her thought and the value that can be found in it as a systematic whole. This book illustrates the empirical origins of her social ontology in her early work on the sociology of education, as well as foregrounding the diverse range of influences that have conditioned her intellectual trajectory: the systems theory of Walter Buckley, the neo-Weberian analysis of Lockwood, the critical realist philosophy of Roy Bhaskar and, more recently, her engagement with American pragmatism and the Italian school of relational sociology. What emerges is a series of important contributions to our understanding of the relationship between structure, culture and agency. Acting to introduce and guide readers through these contributions, this book carries the potential to inform exciting and innovative sociological research.

Strength Beyond Structure

Author : Mirjam De Bruijn
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004156968
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Strength Beyond Structure written by Mirjam De Bruijn and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of historical and anthropological case studies from various parts of Africa, this anthology provides an understanding of the importance of agency in processes of social transformation, especially in the context of crisis and structural constraint.

The Sociology of Space

Author : Martina Löw
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349695688
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (496 download)

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Download or read book The Sociology of Space written by Martina Löw and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author develops a relational concept of space that encompasses social structure, the material world of objects and bodies, and the symbolic dimension of the social world. Löw’s guiding principle is the assumption that space emerges in the interplay between objects, structures and actions. Based on a critical discussion of classic theories of space, Löw develops a new dynamic theory of space that accounts for the relational context in which space is constituted. This innovative view on the interdependency of material, social, and symbolic dimensions of space also permits a new perspective on architecture and urban development.