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Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach
Margaret S. Archer
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Paperback. This 1995 book is an important work of social theory and a challenge to Anthony Giddens' structuration theory. Num Pages: 368 pages, 21 figures. BIC Classification: JHBA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight in Grams: 568. The Morphogenetic Approach. 368 pages, 21 figures. This 1995 book is an important work of social theory and a challenge to Anthony Giddens' structuration theory. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: JHBA. Dimension: 229 x 154 x 22. Weight: 578.
Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and Agency, in this 1995 book Margaret Archer develops her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irreducible to one another. The problem, therefore, is shown to be how to link the two rather than conflate them, as has been common theoretical practice. Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach not only rejects methodological individualism and holism, but argues that the debate between them ... Read more
Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and Agency, in this 1995 book Margaret Archer develops her morphogenetic approach, applying it to the problem of structure and agency. Since structure and agency constitute different levels of stratified social reality, each possesses distinctive emergent properties which are real and causally efficacious but irreducible to one another. The problem, therefore, is shown to be how to link the two rather than conflate them, as has been common theoretical practice. Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach not only rejects methodological individualism and holism, but argues that the debate between them ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Number of pages
368
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1995
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780521484428
SKU
V9780521484428
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