Realist Social Theory The Morphogenetic Approach

Name: Realist Social Theory The Morphogenetic Approach
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ISBN: 9780521484428

ISBN-10: 0521484421

ISBN-13: 9780521484428

Edition: 1995

Authors: Margaret S. Archer

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Building on her seminal contribution to social theory in Culture and Agency, Margaret Archer develops here 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Approach not only rejects methodological individualism and holism, but argues that the debate between them has been replaced by a new one,…

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List price: $58.99
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/19/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.83" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English




The vexatious fact of society



The Problem of Structure and Agency: Four Alternative Solutions



Individualism versus collectivism: querying the terms of the debate



Taking time to link structure and agency



Elision and central conflation



Realism and morphogenesis



The Morphogenetic Cycle



Analytical dualism: the basis of the morphogenetic approach



Structural and cultural conditioning



The morphogenesis of agency



Social elaboration