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STRUCTURES OF POWER AND CONSTRAINT
PAPERS IN HONOR OF PETER M. BLAU |
| By: |
Craig Calhoun (Editor), Marshall W. Meyer (Editor), W. Richard Scott (Editor) |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521113164 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521113168 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
28 February, 2009 |
| Pages: |
508 |
| Description: |
This book discusses the question: are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power? |
| Synopsis: |
Are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power? Or are they essentially external constraints on human action, necessarily analyzed at a different level? How are themes of power and constraint to be joined in a common analytic approach? These have long been central questions for sociologists. since the collapse of functionalism as a unifying paradigm, however they have often appeared as the basis for sharp divisions between competing analytic paradigms. The divide between structuralism and rational-choice theory has been one of the most prominent such splits. Yet each approach has undergone a revival in past years. The editors of this book, in honour of Peter Blau, brought together a wide range of distinguished sociologists who have taken positions on different sides of this issue and brings them into focus as parts of a common discourse on the place of social structure and concepts of strategic action in sociological explanation. |
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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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