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Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau

Structures of Power and Constraint: Papers in Honor of Peter M. Blau

Calhoun, Craig
Scott, W. Richard
Meyer, Marshall W.

Paperback

General Sociology

ISBN10: 0521113164
ISBN13: 9780521113168
Publisher: Cambridge
Published: Jun 18 2009
Pages: 508
Weight: 1.63
Height: 1.13 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Are social structures products of human action, expressions of individual or group power? Or are they essentially external constraints on human action, necessarily analyzed at a different level? How are themes of power and constraint to be joined in a common analytic approach? These have long been central questions for sociologists. since the collapse of functionalism as a unifying paradigm, however they have often appeared as the basis for sharp divisions between competing analytic paradigms. The divide between structuralism and rational-choice theory has been one of the most prominent such splits. Yet each approach has undergone a revival in past years. The editors of this book, in honour of Peter Blau, brought together a wide range of distinguished sociologists who have taken positions on different sides of this issue and brings them into focus as parts of a common discourse on the place of social structure and concepts of strategic action in sociological explanation.

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