Logics of Social Structure

Name: Logics of Social Structure
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ISBN: 9780521032698

ISBN-10: 0521032695

ISBN-13: 9780521032698

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Authors: Kyriakos M. Kontopoulos, Mark Granovetter

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In this book, the author proposes a fundamental new approach to the study of one of the most central concepts in social analysis, that of social structure. He critiques the leading models and argues that each is inadequate to the task of explaining the complexity of structures that make up society and the processes by which these structures are formed and are interlinked. A new conceptualization of the processes of societal formation is then presented, drawing on recent developments in the physical, biological and cognitive sciences. This new conceptualization allows for the multiplicity of processes of structuration, which the author refers to as logics, some of which function at the…

Book details

List price: $74.99
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/23/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 496
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.584
Language: English



Preface


Introduction



Metatheoretical Considerations



Epistemic strategies in contemporary science



The dynamics of emergence: the case against reductionism



The nature of hierarchical and heterarchical organization



Some formal theses on hierarchy and heterarchy



Compositionist Logics



Methodological individualism



Constructionism/compositionism: elementary notions



Complex systems of interaction



Logics of Hierarchy



Hierarchy theory and postfunctional analysis



The hierarchical theory of social structure



Heterarchical Logics



Heterarchical thinking in social thought



Neural networks as a model of structure



The Phenomenology of Social Structures



Modalities and systems of interaction



Heterarchical levels of social structure



On structural totalities



In conclusion


Appendix: the logics of structuration: an inventory


Glossary


Bibliography


Index