STRUCTURE AND AGENCY by Mike O'Donnell (Editor) ( 9781848600317 )

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STRUCTURE AND AGENCY

By:

Mike O'Donnell (Editor)

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1848600313

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9781848600317

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SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD

Pub. date:

17 May, 2010

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Four-Volume Set ed.

Series:

SAGE Key Debates in Sociology

Pages:

1672

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With articles organised in a way that gives a vital historical context to the subject this collection brings an invaluable reference tool to the debate between structure and agency.

Synopsis:

The relationship of social structure to individual and collective agency has been central to sociology from the outset. It remains so in period in which poststructuralists have challenged the idea of stable social structures and even the usefulness in social science of the concept of structure itself. The historical trajectory of the debate about the respective importance of structure and agency and the relationship between the two provides the narrative context of this collection of articles.The point of arranging this collection of articles predominantly in historical sequence is not simply a matter of convenience. Historical context has a major impact on forming the concerns of sociologists and, equally significantly, on the way they perceive and theorise the social world. Volume One: Modernity, Sociology and the Structure/Agency DebateVolume Two: Postmodernity - An End to the Structure /Agency Dichotomy?Volume Three: Structure/Agency Theories AppliedVolume Four: Network Theory - Transcending the Traditional Limits of Structure/Agency

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