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Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach

Realist Social Theory: The Morphogenetic Approach

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PhilosophyGeneral Political ScienceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 0521481767
ISBN13: 9780521481762
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Oct 19 1995
Pages: 368
Weight: 1.40
Height: 1.08 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.24
Language: English
Margaret Archer develops here her morphogenetic approach, heralded in Culture and Agency (CUP, 1988), and applies it to the problem of structure and agency, that is, how we both shape society and are shaped by it. Her aim is to capture the interplay between these two processes rather than collapse them into one, as has been the case with the traditional competing individualist and collectivist methodologies. The morphogenetic approach offers a new understanding of social change and poses a direct challenge to Giddens' structuration theory.

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