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Social Structures
John Levi Martin
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Description for Social Structures
Paperback. Examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, this book identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones. Num Pages: 408 pages, 3 halftones. 47 line illus. 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHBA; JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 233 x 155 x 26. Weight in Grams: 696.
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state. Bringing together the latest findings in sociology, anthropology, political science, and history, John Levi Martin traces how sets of interpersonal relationships become ordered in different ways to form ... Read more
Social Structures is a book that examines how structural forms spontaneously arise from social relationships. Offering major insights into the building blocks of social life, it identifies which locally emergent structures have the capacity to grow into larger ones and shows how structural tendencies associated with smaller structures shape and constrain patterns of larger structures. The book then investigates the role such structures have played in the emergence of the modern nation-state. Bringing together the latest findings in sociology, anthropology, political science, and history, John Levi Martin traces how sets of interpersonal relationships become ordered in different ways to form ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
408
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
695 g
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691150123
SKU
V9780691150123
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About John Levi Martin
John Levi Martin is professor of sociology at the University of Chicago.
Reviews for Social Structures
Winner of the 2010 Theory Prize, American Sociological Association "While his interest in structures has a venerable lineage, Martin's approach is highly distinctive... The book is without doubt an eclectic, ambitious, provocative, sophisticated, and instructive undertaking... Social Structures deserves a wide readership and its ideas a sympathetic hearing."
Science "Martin provides an accessible and workable perspective as he examines the array ... Read more
Science "Martin provides an accessible and workable perspective as he examines the array ... Read more